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Brett I. Holcomb wrote: |
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>On Sat, 8 May 2004, John David Ratliff wrote: |
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>Check the docs on the Gentoo site for nameing convention. I ran into this |
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>on an ebuild - currently emerge can't handle some of the names that are |
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>used. As long as the various ${P} ${PN} variables get set correctly in |
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>the ebuild you and change the name as you suggest. Whether or not it |
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>works depends on how the source you're getting it from stores it. I had |
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>one where the source needed the extra version info to retrieve it properly |
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>but portage wouldn't handle it |
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Yes. I missed the word integer before. It doesn't seem there is anyway |
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to specify this revision 1 except in -r1, which seems reserved for |
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Gentoo Linux specifics. I will just drop the r1 I suppose. |
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John Ratliff |
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> > Brett I. Holcomb |
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>>>To just create an ebuild you don't need to check out the portage tree. |
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>>Thanks. This is mostly what I have done. |
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>>Another question. What is wrong with this name for an ebuild |
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>>tigcc-0.95_beta8r1.ebuild |
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>>The version is 0.95 beta 8r1 (This is what they call it). |
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>>Remove the r1, and there are no problems. Should I just change it to |
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>>maybe tigcc-0.95_beta8.ebuild |
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>>Thanks... |
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>>>On Sat, 8 May 2004, John David Ratliff wrote: |
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>>>>I want to create an ebuild for a software package, but I am confused on |
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>>>>the directions. The ebuild HOWTO tells me to checkout portage from CVS, |
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>>>>however, it lists no CVS server or what kind of authentication to use. |
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>>>>Is this restricted to 'official' developers? If so, can I still create |
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>>>>and submit an ebuild? If not, what is the CVSROOT setting so I can |
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>>>>checkout portage? |
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>>>>I also need to add the software to the gentoo mirrors. I read in one of |
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>>>>the HOWTOs that cvs snapshots could be added to the mirror. This is |
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>>>>similar, except they use the same filename for every new version, so |
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>>>>there is no way to know which version you are downloading from their |
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>>>>site. Additionally, each new version requires different a specific |
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>>>>version of another package to be downloaded, so it is crucial that the |
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>>>>version of the original package is known. So I thought maybe I could add |
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>>>>this with a version number to the gentoo mirror. |
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>>>>Finally, I am unsure where in portage it should be added. It is a |
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>>>>cross-compiler for C into native binaries for a specific kind of |
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>>>>calculator. The software is a modified version of GCC and binutils. |
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>>>>Thanks... |
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