[gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage

[gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage

[John Lange]

I frequently need things installed from portage but the most recent
version is not available. (digikam is a recent example).

I'd be happy to grab the most recent stable source and make it work in
Gentoo Portage and contribute it...

Is there a How-To for this?

My apologies, I know this must be someplace but for the life of me I
can't find it.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage

[brettholcomb]

Check out the doc pages on Gentoo about creating ebuilds.  You can use existing ones as models.

> 
> From: John Lange <john.lange@open-it.ca>
> Date: 2005/10/06 Thu AM 11:15:32 EDT
> To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
> Subject: [gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage
> 
> 
> I frequently need things installed from portage but the most recent
> version is not available. (digikam is a recent example).
> 
> I'd be happy to grab the most recent stable source and make it work in
> Gentoo Portage and contribute it...
> 
> Is there a How-To for this?
> 
> My apologies, I know this must be someplace but for the life of me I
> can't find it.
> 
> -- 
> John Lange
> 
> 
> -- 
> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> 
> 

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Re: [gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage

[John Lange]

The Gentoo documentation on ebuilds is "after-the-fact".

"Contributing Ebuilds: This guide explains how to submit ebuild packages
through the Bugzilla tracking system."

I did finally find it. Its apparently not in the gentoo documentation
but there is a Wiki.

Once I figured out the appropriate search term is "ebuild" I was able to
turn up some decent google results.

For the sake of anyone else looking:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_an_Updated_Ebuild

Thanks,
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John Lange


On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 13:00 -0400, brettholcomb@bellsouth.net wrote:
> Check out the doc pages on Gentoo about creating ebuilds.  You can use existing ones as models.
> 
> > 
> > From: John Lange <john.lange@open-it.ca>
> > Date: 2005/10/06 Thu AM 11:15:32 EDT
> > To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
> > Subject: [gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage
> > 
> > 
> > I frequently need things installed from portage but the most recent
> > version is not available. (digikam is a recent example).
> > 
> > I'd be happy to grab the most recent stable source and make it work in
> > Gentoo Portage and contribute it...
> > 
> > Is there a How-To for this?
> > 
> > My apologies, I know this must be someplace but for the life of me I
> > can't find it.
> > 
> > -- 
> > John Lange
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> > 
> > 
> 


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Re: [gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 10:15:32 -0500, John Lange wrote:

> I frequently need things installed from portage but the most recent
> version is not available. (digikam is a recent example).

The latest Digikam, 0.8.0_beta2. is already in portage, you just need to
unmask it.


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