Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild creation assistance...

["Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb@charter.net>]

To just create an ebuild you don't need to check out the portage tree.  
Use an existing one as a sample - there is a skel.ebuild to use as a 
model.  Once the ebuild works submit it on bugzilla.  However, first check 
bugzilla to make sure there isn't already one there for the app.

I would recommend setting the PORTDIR_OVERLAY in /etc/make.conf.  Mine is 
/usr/local/portage.  Create the directory structure needed 
(category/package) in PORTDIR_OVERLAY and do your work there.  I copy an 
existing ebuild that is close to what I want and modify it.



 On Sat, 8 May 2004, John David Ratliff wrote:

> I want to create an ebuild for a software package, but I am confused on 
> the directions. The ebuild HOWTO tells me to checkout portage from CVS, 
> however, it lists no CVS server or what kind of authentication to use. 
> Is this restricted to 'official' developers? If so, can I still create 
> and submit an ebuild? If not, what is the CVSROOT setting so I can 
> checkout portage?
> 
> I also need to add the software to the gentoo mirrors. I read in one of 
> the HOWTOs that cvs snapshots could be added to the mirror. This is 
> similar, except they use the same filename for every new version, so 
> there is no way to know which version you are downloading from their 
> site. Additionally, each new version requires different a specific 
> version of another package to be downloaded, so it is crucial that the 
> version of the original package is known. So I thought maybe I could add 
> this with a version number to the gentoo mirror.
> 
> Finally, I am unsure where in portage it should be added. It is a 
> cross-compiler for C into native binaries for a specific kind of 
> calculator. The software is a modified version of GCC and binutils.
> 
> Thanks...
> 
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