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Hi all |
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* I'm new both to Gentoo and to Gentoo Prefix, so apologies for what |
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may 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 |
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the 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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* 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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Many thanks, |
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Derek. |
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