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From: Justin <justin@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-science@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] emerge failed
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:10:19
Message-Id: 47697A6E.5010705@j-schmitz.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-science] emerge failed by Donnie Berkholz
1 Donnie Berkholz schrieb:
2 > On 09:23 Wed 19 Dec , Justin wrote:
3 >
4 >> Donnie Berkholz schrieb:
5 >>
6 >>> On 19:18 Mon 17 Dec , Justin wrote:
7 >>>
8 >>> Since that bug shows that a header wasn't found at
9 >>> /usr/include/gtkgl/gtkglarea.h, it might be worth checking whether that
10 >>> file exists.
11 >>>
12 >>>
13 >> This file belongs to x11-libs/gtkglarea-1.2.3-r1. So this package must
14 >> be emerged for coot.
15 >>
16 >
17 > That's not quite what I was asking. Does the file physically exist on
18 > the filesystem?
19 >
20 >
21 It exists and is provided by x11-libs/gtkglarea-1.2.3-r1.
22 >>> I've got some newer ebuilds around for 0.4 prereleases that I could add
23 >>> to the tree masked, if that would help.
24 >>>
25 >
26 > I just added 0.4_pre2-r549. Unfortunately I couldn't find a better way
27 > to deal with the upstream revision number than using ours for it.
28 >
29 >
30 >> I thought for myself writing an ebuild for that, but I didn't found
31 >> the sources. But I will be a happy tester if you need. The same, if
32 >> you need help maintaining packages, i offer my help. The science thing
33 >> should enlarge in gentoo. I wrote a couple of ebuild for my
34 >> private-overlay, which work fine for me. Perhaps there is some need
35 >> for that. Some packages are Arpwarp, xds, cara, and i'm working on
36 >> phaser or rewriting the ccp4 ebuild so that it could emerge phaser as
37 >> a dep. The only thing which im not sure about is the legal thing with
38 >> those ebuilds. So if you could teach me which license the writing of
39 >> ebuild alows and which, I publish them.
40 >>
41 >
42 > I'd love to see those ebuilds. Could you get access to the science
43 > overlay so you could commit them?
44 How can I do this?
45 > Regarding Phaser, my basic plan was to
46 > get a separate cctbx ebuild, then separate ebuilds for Phaser, Chooch,
47 > etc., rather than make the ccp4 ebuild any more disgusting than it
48 > already is.
49 >
50 > The ebuilds themselves are perfectly legal since they're just recipes.
51 > If the source-code license is restrictive, we can add various types of
52 > RESTRICT settings to the ebuilds to prevent redistribution on Gentoo
53 > mirrors (RESTRICT=mirror) or to force people to manually download it
54 > (RESTRICT=fetch and pkg_nofetch() function).
55 >
56 > Thanks,
57 > Donnie
58 >
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