[gentoo-dev] submiting ebuilds

[gentoo-dev] submiting ebuilds

[Amiel Martin]

what is the easiest way to submit an ebuild.
I looked at the developer docs at gentoo.org/doc and Id rather not 
figure all this cvs stuff out right now, I just have a simple ebuild for 
the fdftk that I would like to submit.
Thanks
-Amiel


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Re: [gentoo-dev] submiting ebuilds

[George Shapovalov]

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ebuild-submit.xml
In short - create a new bug on bugs.gentoo.org. But please see the link for 
detailed instructions, such as, which category should the bug belong, etc.

George

On Saturday 10 May 2003 18:54, Amiel Martin wrote:
> what is the easiest way to submit an ebuild.
> I looked at the developer docs at gentoo.org/doc and Id rather not
> figure all this cvs stuff out right now, I just have a simple ebuild for
> the fdftk that I would like to submit.
> Thanks
> -Amiel
>
>
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Re: [gentoo-dev] submiting ebuilds

[Arthur Britto]

On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 19:11, George Shapovalov wrote:
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ebuild-submit.xml
> In short - create a new bug on bugs.gentoo.org. But please see the link for 
> detailed instructions, such as, which category should the bug belong, etc.

That's nice, but I've been tracking an ebuild submission (bug #8997)
since October.

How many months should someone expect to babysit an ebuild till it is
placed in portage as unstable? 6 months?

-Arthur

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Re: [gentoo-dev] submiting ebuilds

[Amiel Martin]

thanks, Im working on it now...

-AMiel

George Shapovalov wrote:

>http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ebuild-submit.xml
>In short - create a new bug on bugs.gentoo.org. But please see the link for 
>detailed instructions, such as, which category should the bug belong, etc.
>
>George
>
>On Saturday 10 May 2003 18:54, Amiel Martin wrote:
>  
>
>>what is the easiest way to submit an ebuild.
>>I looked at the developer docs at gentoo.org/doc and Id rather not
>>figure all this cvs stuff out right now, I just have a simple ebuild for
>>the fdftk that I would like to submit.
>>Thanks
>>-Amiel
>>
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Re: [gentoo-dev] submiting ebuilds

[Caleb Shay]

Amen to that one.  I know that we just had a big discussion about this a
little while ago, and a package maintainer system is possibly in the
works, but it does get on your nerves after a while.

Case in point:  I've been keeping the ebuilds of xmame and xmess updated
for several months now.  However, it's been months since the updated
ebuilds have actually been merged into portage.  Oh, and to top it off,
it appears that recently somebody version bumped it without referring to
my updated ebuild.  Not a good thing, since things have changed in the
build process again.  Well, I'm off to file another bug report.

Caleb

On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 22:20, Arthur Britto wrote:

> 
> That's nice, but I've been tracking an ebuild submission (bug #8997)
> since October.
> 
> How many months should someone expect to babysit an ebuild till it is
> placed in portage as unstable? 6 months?
> 
> -Arthur


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Re: [gentoo-dev] submiting ebuilds

[Sven Vermeulen]

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On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 07:20:19PM -0700, Arthur Britto wrote:
> That's nice, but I've been tracking an ebuild submission (bug #8997)
> since October.
> 
> How many months should someone expect to babysit an ebuild till it is
> placed in portage as unstable? 6 months?

Suppose you are a Gentoo developer and that you are going to commit those
ebuilds in Portage. You are, as a developer, aware that *any* difficulty with
the ebuild is *your* responsability. *You* must have tested the ebuild
thouroughly and made sure that all variables and USE-settings are in place.
Now if this is an ebuild you don't even use, are you really motivated to take
such a responsability?

The Gentoo Linux Development is aware of this problem and is working on it.
However, implementing a complete new scheme concerning responsability for
ebuilds takes some time, not only to write out, but to test and make sure
there aren't any fallbacks. So please bare with us and be patient. Read the
GWN for the latest news on our Herd-implementation, but don't ask questions
about it since the people in charge of that implementation would rather
implement it than reply'ing to dozens of e-mails which will just slow down
their development pace.

And if you aren't satistied with that answer, just think that we are in an
ebuild-freeze (we're not, but just suppose we are) to increase our QA :)

Wkr,
	Sven Vermeulen
	Gentoo Documentation

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