Re: [gentoo-dev] *DEVELOPMENT* mail list, right?

[Doug Goldstein]

Michael Cummings wrote:
> So, fellow devs, what's new with development? For those interested, genlop has
> migrated into gentoo as a project with the permission of upstream, which no
> longer maintain it. Um...any new tools or projects people are working on?
>
> Anyone?
>
>
steev got hal 0.5.9 into the tree (it's masked) and we've both been
solidly kicking it to behave how we need it. Anyone interested in
testing it out would be very helpful.

I can promise it won't come to your house and beat up your dog. But I
can't promise you might have some little glitches here and there that I
end up asking you to help debug. Overall it's a much more enjoyable
version to work with then 0.5.7 and 0.5.8 ever were. We're currently
sitting at 4 patches and that number will probably move to 5 over the
next few days. They're fairly straight forward and not to difficult to
manage.

Another thing we've done with HAL is move over to using quilt
(dev-util/quilt). Anyone can join in the HAL patch fun by emerging quilt
and following the simple steps.

$ cd ~
$ tar zxf /usr/portage/distfiles/hal-0.5.9.tar.gz
$ cd hal-0.5.9
$ ln -s /usr/portage/sys-apps/hal/files/0.5.9/ patches
$ quilt push

Now you'll see it apply our first patch. Keep doing quilt push until
you're at the top then do a simple
$ quilt new my_uber_l33t.patch

Edit your files and you should have a nice patch to submit to bugzilla
which is guaranteed to apply so we won't have the issues of user
submitted patches not applying and taking a lot of work to make them
apply. This helps us since we can get fixes into the tree faster for you
and you become happier since your issues get fixed faster.

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Doug Goldstein
cardoe@g.o

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