Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild development (vpopmail, etc.)

[Alin Nastac]

Casey Allen Shobe wrote:

>I'm planning to edit the vpopmail ebuild Real Soon Now to add the
>mysteriously missing postgres USE flag and thus end up with a
>package compiled with the support we need.
>
>Instead of wasting my time re-adding this every time a new version
>of vpopmail comes along, I'd much rather use this as an opportunity
>to get into Gentoo development and add this to the central ebuild
>repository so that all future versions inherit it.
>
>What do I need to do to get started on this?  Do I simply mail a
>patch to this list, or ask somebody for a CVS account and commit
>changes directly?
>
>
>
You should file a bug in http://bugs.gentoo.org.

>I'm also a bit confused about the portdir_overlay thing - If there
>exists a -r15, do I then add a -r16 to make emerge realize an
>update is available.  What happens then when an -r16 hits the
>regular portage tree?
>
>
if r15 exists in portdir_overlay, it will be preferred over the official
r15 version.