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From: "José María Alonso" <nimiux@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] app-portage/conf-update: new maintainer needed
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:47:45
Message-Id: 20101006134634.GA10950@muiri
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] app-portage/conf-update: new maintainer needed by "José María Alonso"
1 On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 09:54:34PM +0200, José María Alonso wrote:
2 > On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 09:45:32PM +0200, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
3 > > Hey there,
4 > >
5 > >
6 > > like etc-update and dispatch-conf _conf-update_ seems to be one of the
7 > > more central tools in Gentoo.
8 > >
9 > > ...
10 > >
11 > > There is lots of smaller task you could start with:
12 > > - Clean up the (rather messy) ebuild
13 > > - Integrate patches from the ebuild into a new release
14 > > - Fix ugly compile warnings
15 > >
16 > > If you are fluid in C but not Ebuilds we may find a proxy or mentor for
17 > > you. Please contact us, i.e. please reply to the thread on gentoo-dev.
18 > >
19 > > Thanks!
20 > >
21 > >
22 > >
23 > > Sebastian
24 > >
25 >
26 > Hi Sebastian,
27 >
28 > I would very glad to help in this issue.
29 >
30 > I don't have ebuild experience but currently I am reading the developer
31 > handbook and I am fluent in C.
32 >
33 > I've taken a look at conf-update code and I think I can handle it.
34 >
35 > Regards.
36 >
37
38 Hi again,
39
40 I've modified conf-update source tarball to:
41
42 1. Fix all warnings reported.
43 2. Include both patches:
44 conf-update-1.0-asneeded.patch
45 conf-update-1.0-regex-classes.patch
46
47 You can find the modified tarball at:
48
49 http://dev.gentoo.org/~nimiux/conf-update-1.0.tar.bz2
50
51 Cheers!

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Re: [gentoo-dev] app-portage/conf-update: new maintainer needed Sebastian Pipping <sping@g.o>