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 1HQfHa-00030O-K5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2007 07:49:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l2C7mFeC005100; Mon, 12 Mar 2007 07:48:15 GMT Received: from mx5.orcon.net.nz (loadbalancer2.orcon.net.nz [219.88.242.4]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l2C7hkRd032326 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2007 07:43:46 GMT Received: from Debian-exim by mx5.orcon.net.nz with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HQfE7-0000XW-1i for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:45:51 +1300 Received: from 60-234-144-216.bitstream.orcon.net.nz ([60.234.144.216] helo=storage.rout.dyndns.org) by mx5.orcon.net.nz with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HQfE6-0000Wo-Dm for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:45:50 +1300 Received: from [192.168.1.10] (sf.rout.dyndns.org [192.168.1.10]) by storage.rout.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1247C1A9803 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:43:42 +1300 (NZDT) Message-ID: <45F504D2.8060307@rout.co.nz> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:44:18 +1300 From: Nick Rout User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061206) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A question regarding non-Portage software... References: <45F384B4.7030001@comcast.net> <200703110610.27193.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> <20070311084729.5ea9c0d1@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20070311084729.5ea9c0d1@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-DSPAM-Check: by mx5.orcon.net.nz on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:45:50 +1300 X-DSPAM-Result: Innocent X-DSPAM-Processed: Mon Mar 12 20:45:51 2007 X-DSPAM-Confidence: 0.6942 X-DSPAM-Improbability: 1 in 228 chance of being spam X-DSPAM-Probability: 0.0000 X-Archives-Salt: bc38ecf3-2538-42b6-8ccc-0a4063ea0450 X-Archives-Hash: 027a815ab361b383ef64bd1be4422e55 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 06:10:22 +0100, Bo =D8rsted Andresen wrote: > > =20 >>> 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. =20 >>> =20 >> 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... >> =20 > > Also, search Bugzilla and the forums, someone may have already created > ebuilds for these programs. > > =20 Also look at ebuilds for similar programs. Write an ebuild, its not that=20 difficult in a simple case. With an ebuild, it is much easier to uninstall and upgrade packages. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list