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On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Peter Ansell <ansell.peter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> 2010/1/6 Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o>: |
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>> velociraptor wrote: |
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>>> I was wondering, please, if the more experienced of you had any |
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>>> suggestions for ebuild guides that were more oriented towards |
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>>> alt-prefix users? Everything I've looked at thus far is very much |
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>>> oriented towards having a complete Gentoo system. Barring that, |
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>>> perhaps something a little more "step-by-step" tutorials, rather than |
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>>> theoretically oriented? |
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>>> |
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>>> I would like to create my own ebuild for Netatalk as I know this |
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>>> compiles fine on Solaris, and all the dependencies are currently |
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>>> available the Solaris alt-prefix portage tree. |
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>>> |
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>>> Thanks in advance-- |
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>>> =Nadine= |
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>>> |
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>> |
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>> Gentoo Prefix ebuilds are the same as Gentoo Linux except for the changes |
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>> outlined in our techdocs[1]. It might be easier for people to answer if you |
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>> had a specific questions. |
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> |
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> I think it was a specific question. What steps do you use to create a |
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> prefix ebuild. That document is hard to understand in my opinion and I |
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> know what the prefix is supposed to do. It is definitely not a simple |
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> step by step guide for someone wanting to create an ebuild themselves |
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> as it is designed as a technical description to define the exact |
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> semantics of "EPREFIX" and related variables in different situations. |
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> It would do well to have some example ebuilds embedded into the |
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> document that utilise each of the variables. |
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Thanks, Peter, that sums it up nicely. Any step-by-step recipe type |
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instance would be helpful, as I haven't been able to find something |
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like that for Gentoo, either. Don't get me wrong, Gentoo |
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documentation excels in many ways beyond that of other Linux versions, |
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but in the area of ebuilds, the documentation seems very much focussed |
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on people with more development oriented skill sets. I'm no |
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developer, but I have been coaxing OSS to run on Solaris for a long |
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while. |
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Maybe I should start by standing up a Gentoo VM and taking a look at |
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the Linux ebuild of netatalk as a jumping off point. |
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Best regards-- |
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=Nadine= |
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