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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HQGPU-00082G-FU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Mar 2007 05:15:56 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l2B5EiRJ018381; Sun, 11 Mar 2007 05:14:44 GMT Received: from shuttle.zlin.dk (port78.ds1-abs.adsl.cybercity.dk [212.242.227.17]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l2B5ARls013362 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2007 05:10:27 GMT Received: from BA.zlin.dk (unknown [10.0.0.3]) by shuttle.zlin.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9643A14002 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2007 06:10:27 +0100 (CET) From: Bo =?utf-8?q?=C3=98rsted_Andresen?= 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <45F384B4.7030001@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <45F384B4.7030001@comcast.net> 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart18935011.WeWoAMDoJI"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200703110610.27193.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> X-Archives-Salt: 33474e8b-b033-408d-b6b8-29b57f5d2955 X-Archives-Hash: b39290bb8c45811789d8d9457c084b3e --nextPart18935011.WeWoAMDoJI Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 wan= t. > > 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-hel= p=20 at freenode is a good place to get more help... http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml =2D-=20 Bo Andresen --nextPart18935011.WeWoAMDoJI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBF849D8/kKEzmwNNoRAu2fAJ9ZBUF5mEXt7w8tupCj2xWpRxgy8wCgrdqR 59DIXWh5xoSD5A1Io6IodCk= =R5Xf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart18935011.WeWoAMDoJI-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list