[gentoo-dev] ebuild development (vpopmail, etc.)

[Casey Allen Shobe <lists@seattleserver.com>]

Hi everyone,

I'm planning to edit the vpopmail ebuild Real Soon Now to add the 
mysteriously missing postgres USE flag and thus end up with a 
package compiled with the support we need.

Instead of wasting my time re-adding this every time a new version 
of vpopmail comes along, I'd much rather use this as an opportunity 
to get into Gentoo development and add this to the central ebuild 
repository so that all future versions inherit it.

What do I need to do to get started on this?  Do I simply mail a 
patch to this list, or ask somebody for a CVS account and commit 
changes directly?

I'm also a bit confused about the portdir_overlay thing - If there 
exists a -r15, do I then add a -r16 to make emerge realize an 
update is available.  What happens then when an -r16 hits the 
regular portage tree?

Thanks for any information you can provide.

Cheers,
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