From: "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@zlin.dk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A question regarding non-Portage software...
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 06:10:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200703110610.27193.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45F384B4.7030001@comcast.net>
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On Sunday 11 March 2007 05:25:24 Chris wrote:
> I will begin by stating my problem. I have the source code (in
> *.tar.bz2 format) for a couple of pieces of software that are not in the
> Portage tree at all. I would like to compile and install them in such a
> way that I can use them, and even so Portage recognizes them.
>
> I have read the official Gentoo documentation regarding Portage, ebuilds
> and diverting from the Portage tree and while it gave me some ideas, it
> really didn't fully answer the question of exactly *how* to do what I want.
>
> I am hoping that someone can provide me with resources - examples and/or
> a walkthrough would be especially helpful. I realize that the Gentoo
> team can only do so much and carefully test each package before putting
> it in the official tree. There are just some pieces of software that I
> want that are not even in the testing tree.
The devmanual is a good place to start. If you use IRC then #gentoo-dev-help
at freenode is a good place to get more help...
http://devmanual.gentoo.org/
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml
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Bo Andresen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-11 5:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-11 4:25 [gentoo-user] A question regarding non-Portage software Chris
2007-03-11 5:10 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen [this message]
2007-03-11 8:47 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-03-12 7:44 ` Nick Rout
2007-03-11 5:19 ` [gentoo-user] " »Q«
2007-03-12 9:47 ` Masood Ahmed
2007-03-11 5:21 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
2007-03-11 14:01 ` [gentoo-user] " Steve Long
2007-03-11 19:17 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-03-11 16:05 ` [gentoo-user] " Alex Schuster
2007-03-12 18:52 ` Alan McKinnon
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