From: Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A question regarding non-Portage software...
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:44:18 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45F504D2.8060307@rout.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070311084729.5ea9c0d1@hactar.digimed.co.uk>
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 06:10:22 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
>
>
>>> 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...
>>
>
> Also, search Bugzilla and the forums, someone may have already created
> ebuilds for these programs.
>
>
Also look at ebuilds for similar programs. Write an ebuild, its not that
difficult in a simple case.
With an ebuild, it is much easier to uninstall and upgrade packages.
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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
2007-03-11 8:47 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-03-12 7:44 ` Nick Rout [this message]
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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