Re: [gentoo-amd64] Ebuild HOWTO

[deface]

Hey Mark,

	Cool, your in Asheville. I used to live there; grew up there  
actually. - as far as your ebuild's; take a look at the following sites.

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=1
http://devmanual.gentoo.org/quickstart/index.html
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_an_Updated_Ebuild

once done with the actual ebuild,

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ebuild-submit.xml

I use layman, and create my own ebuilds for testing purposes in it.

hope this helps,

deface


On Jun 4, 2008, at 8:53 AM, Mark Haney wrote:

> Okay, I've gone over the docs and the HOWTOs on gentoo.org and I'm
> still a wee bit (okay maybe a lot) fuzzy on developing/updating
> ebuilds.
>
> I have a particular app I use quite often (DVDStyler), but the
> ebuild in portage is pretty old (1.5.2_p2) compared to the latest
> version available (1.6.2), the difference being about a year between
> them.
>
> I know I can just compile the source for the latest, but I'd like to
> update the ebuild to learn how to do it.  The docs however, aren't
> helpful from the standpoint that there's no clear cut procedure for
> setting up a devel environment for building/testing an ebuild
> locally without becoming a gentoo developer, per se.
>
> Me, I rather like having step-by-step instructions on my first go
> round so I can 'do it right' the first time, then I'll know how to
> fix it if I bork something.
>
> Is there something like that floating around?
>
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