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Derek Harland wrote: |
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> Hi all |
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> * I'm new both to Gentoo and to Gentoo Prefix, so apologies for what may |
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> be a stupid question! |
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> * Currently I use macports for building/installing software on OSX and |
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> maintain some ports for them |
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> * I'm looking at instead using Gentoo Prefix |
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> * I've successfully bootstrapped gentoo prefix on OSX10.5 following the |
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> instructions at |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/bootstrap-macos.xml |
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> * My question now is ... how can I contribute to the project by adding |
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> ebuilds to the prefix tree? That is, there are plenty of ebuilds that |
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> I'm sure are in gentoo but don't appear when I do eg emerge --search. |
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> I've found this documentation on how to make changes |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/techdocs.xml |
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> Is the process: |
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> (i) Get hold of a gentoo ebuild from sources.gentoo.org |
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> (ii) modify it and pass new ebuild file to emerge |
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> (iii) contribute ebuild diff somehow to gentoo-prefix <--- How?? |
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The Gentoo/Alt bugzilla component and the "Prefix support" category. |
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> * Part of what I'd like to do is to get ebuilds for python 2.4.x |
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> available --- does gentoo support having multiple versions of python |
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> installed? |
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Gentoo supports it, but we don't support Python 2.4. Please look into |
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overlays and then you can checkout the old python from svn. Browse on |
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overlay.gentoo.org (you will have to go back a long ways to find it.) |
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What reason do you have for Python 2.4? |
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-Jeremy |
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(Sorry for the brief-ness, I am in abit of a rush) |
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