From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EL2j2-0002pI-JR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 18:01:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j8THqAId003337; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:52:10 GMT Received: from vms040pub.verizon.net (vms040pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.40]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j8THjdsj028164 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:45:39 GMT Received: from mail.joat.com ([71.114.149.33]) by vms040.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2 HotFix 0.04 (built Dec 24 2004)) with ESMTPA id <0INL00KMQA7EF0A1@vms040.mailsrvcs.net> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 12:35:38 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (cornholio.joat.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.joat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84E80AD4E for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:35:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.joat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.joat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 10132-10 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:35:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from cdnebinge (jnet.state.pa.us [206.224.31.162]) by mail.joat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:35:34 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:37:28 -0400 From: "Dave Nebinger" Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] no ebuild what to do? In-reply-to: <20050929171834.79065.qmail@web31710.mail.mud.yahoo.com> To: Message-id: <003d01c5c51c$76febf90$4501010a@jnetlab.lcl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at joat.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j8THjdsj028164 X-Archives-Salt: bcbae9d7-b0fa-4340-960a-ba0e7d7667fd X-Archives-Hash: 7f145dfa7d7eaa7db410491830cfa5e1 > I'd like to install dekagen but there are no ebuilds > for it. I suppose I could just unpack it and follow > the INSTALL doc but is that the appropriate gentoo > way? It's the general unix way of doing things, so sure it fits into gentoo also. Ebuilds are not really necessary unless you believe a lot of other folks will be using the same package. That said, having written some ebuilds lately, I can tell you for the most part the process is pretty easy. Start with an ebuild for a package that is similar to what you're going to install, make the various changes for the package (the gentoo doc for the ebuilds is your best friend here), and drop it into your overlay. If you want to release it, it goes easily into bugs.gentoo.org. If you don't want to do the ebuild yourself, and you believe at some point in the future someone else might get one into portage, you can always use the ./configure script to install to /usr/local - it would still be available yet allows for future emerging should it get added. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list