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 4.50) id 1ENbh9-0007YA-Sv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2005 19:46:24 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j96Jb0ve014578; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 19:37:00 GMT Received: from imf16aec.mail.bellsouth.net (imf16aec.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.59.64]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j96JXKaR000155 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 19:33:21 GMT Received: from ibm58aec.bellsouth.net ([192.168.16.253]) by imf16aec.mail.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id <20051006194200.XWRK6243.imf16aec.mail.bellsouth.net@ibm58aec.bellsouth.net> for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 15:42:00 -0400 Received: from mail.bellsouth.net ([192.168.16.253]) by ibm58aec.bellsouth.net with SMTP id <20051006194159.PXET10162.ibm58aec.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net> for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 15:41:59 -0400 X-Mailer: Openwave WebEngine, version 2.8.16.1 (webedge20-101-1106-101-20040924) X-Originating-IP: [158.158.240.230] From: To: Subject: Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 15:41:59 -0400 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20051006194159.PXET10162.ibm58aec.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net> X-Archives-Salt: f62468d1-b316-4cd6-9abf-d171827a31c4 X-Archives-Hash: 44c3dbf6794417de575698fefec5dbbb That's good to know. It's been a while since I looked but there used to be some docs on how to actually do an ebuild and what things in it meant. > > From: John Lange > Date: 2005/10/06 Thu PM 01:11:21 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage > > 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, > -- > 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 > > > Date: 2005/10/06 Thu AM 11:15:32 EDT > > > To: Gentoo User > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list