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

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

On Sat, 8 May 2004, John David Ratliff wrote:
Check the docs on the Gentoo site for nameing convention.  I ran into this 
on an ebuild - currently emerge can't handle some of the names that are 
used.  As long as the various ${P} ${PN} variables get set correctly in 
the ebuild you and change the name as you suggest.  Whether or not it 
works depends on how the source you're getting it from stores it.  I had 
one where the source needed the extra version info to retrieve it properly 
but portage wouldn't handle it  


 > Brett I. Holcomb 
wrote: > 
> >To just create an ebuild you don't need to check out the portage tree.  
> >
> >  
> >
> Thanks. This is mostly what I have done.
> 
> Another question. What is wrong with this name for an ebuild
> 
> tigcc-0.95_beta8r1.ebuild
> 
> The version is 0.95 beta 8r1 (This is what they call it).
> 
> Remove the r1, and there are no problems. Should I just change it to 
> maybe tigcc-0.95_beta8.ebuild
> 
> Thanks...
> 
> >
> > 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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