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i have a synced copy of the main gentoo tree and my local tree. if there |
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were a package i would like to test i copy it to my local tree and work on |
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it. |
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i havent had time lately. and when i was working on it i have gotten |
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stuck with opengl, some X dependencies when not needed. i need to get |
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back into it. |
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matt |
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On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, 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 be a |
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> 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 I'm |
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> sure are in gentoo but don't appear when I do eg emerge --search. I've found |
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> 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 available |
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> --- does gentoo support having multiple versions of python installed? |
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> Many thanks, |
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> Derek. |
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