From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JUg1W-0006aM-Uv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:29:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 99878E05B7; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:29:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailfilter3.ihug.co.nz (mailfilter3.ihug.co.nz [203.109.136.3]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10AEEE05B7 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:29:55 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAFMcxkd2XBnV/2dsb2JhbAAIrhk X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,418,1199617200"; d="scan'208";a="72965202" Ironport-Content-Filter: send-to-smtp Ironport-OCF: send-to-smtp Received: from 118-92-25-213.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz (HELO [10.1.1.3]) ([118.92.25.213]) by smtp.mailfilter3.ihug.co.nz with ESMTP; 28 Feb 2008 23:29:53 +1300 Message-ID: <47C68D33.4010405@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:30:11 +1300 From: Alistair Bush User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20080228) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The app-misc/beagle in portage is seriously outdated! References: <20080228022750.GA28306@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20080228022750.GA28306@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 59cc6ab9-0d4b-4006-90b9-b9eb7b37cb4a X-Archives-Hash: 42fb73eae7becec70f0ce48905f68edc Shaochun Wang wrote: > Hi all: > > BTW, besides the beagle bump request in the bugzilla of Gentoo, is there > any way to let us normal users get beagle up to date? > Im sure that there are more than a few dev that would be willing to proxy maintain the package, if a user is prepared to standup and take responsibility for it. Currently it seems that the package doesn't build for everyone ( by having a quick look at #201093 ) and this is something that any maintainer would have to rectify [1]. If your prepared to do it there are plenty of resources to help you along. Checkout http://devmanual.gentoo.org and jump on irc://freenode/#gentoo-dev-help if you have any ebuild related questions. ali_bush [1] Sometimes I get the impression that users think that as long as a package works for them, that it works. This sadly isn't the case. -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list