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On 14-07-2008 09:46:02 +1200, Derek Harland wrote: |
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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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Like Jeremy and Matt already wrote, there are ways to avoid doing much |
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of the manual work. In particular the scripts ecopy and eupdate(.in) |
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are of interest here. Also look at the prefix-users overlay (easiest is |
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to get layman). |
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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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If you really need it, we'll have to revive it again. I dropped the |
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2.4 series when the 2.5 series were doing fine in Prefix, because Python |
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is a downright hell, and I wanted to avoid maintaining that hell where |
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not absolutely necessary. |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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