Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Alistair Bush <ali_bush@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The feature patch mess in the webalizer ebuild (and how to deal with it)
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:32:02
Message-Id: 201003101133.00668.ali_bush@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] The feature patch mess in the webalizer ebuild (and how to deal with it) by Sebastian Pipping
1 > Solution
2 > ========
3 > 1) Add two new packages to the tree:
4 > - app-admin/geolizer (/usr/bin/geolizer)
5 > - app-admin/webalizer-xtended (/usr/bin/webalizer-xtended)
6 >
7 > 2) Bump webalizer to 2.21 while
8 > - no longer applying either feature patch
9 > - removing use flag "xtended"
10 > - keeping now hollow use flag "geoip" to reduce breakage
11 >
12 > 3) Close related bug 231859
13 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=231859
14 >
15 > I volunteer to do that.
16 >
17 > Any objections or suggestions?
18
19 +1 we really should be attempting to keep as close to upstream as possible.