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On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 08:04, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 21:04, John Davis wrote: |
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> > Basically going through the steps to create the herd, contact the old |
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> > maintainers to see if they want to continue maintaining, and making sure |
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> > each and everyone of those packages is up-to-date (esp the knoppix ones) |
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> > and stable in Portage in a relatively short amt of time :) |
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> Well, I don't really know much about creating a herd, but I can shoot |
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> off an email to gentoo-core stating my intentions of creating one, plus |
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> a call out to the maintainers of said packages. I would like to change |
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> one package. We have been using the (dated) Red Hat kudzu on our CDs, |
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> and I have an ebuild all ready for the Knoppix kudzu (kudzu-knoppix), |
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> which I think would probably be a better solution, since I'm sure |
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> they've already patched up a lot of stuff to make it better than the |
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> <kudzu-1.0 we're running with. |
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> > So really, nothing to hard, just time consuming. If you want to do it, I |
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> > will buy you a case of your favorite beer :) |
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> Well, I did all the ebuilds yesterday, so that's not a big deal... ;] |
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> I would think all that really needs to be done would be for me to get |
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> permissions from the maintainers and to commit them all. That and the |
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> actual herd creation. |
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Sounds good to me - run with it Chris :) BTW, using knoppix kudzu (if it |
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is compatible) would probably work much better. |
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Cheers, |
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John Davis |
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