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From: "Jared H. Hudson" <jhhudso@××××××××××.com>
To: John Dee <antitux@××××××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Netscape Packages
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:30:56
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.44.0204121430230.21398-100000@volumehost.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Netscape Packages by antitux@netscape.com (John Dee)
1 I think mozilla 0.9.9 is what most people build these days on Gentoo.
2
3 -Jared H.
4
5 On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, John Dee wrote:
6
7 > One more question I've got.
8 > Would you guys be willing to replace netscape 4.x with netscape 6 as the
9 > default browser?
10 > Since netscape 4.x isn't really being maintained anymore (I do builds
11 > once a week, blah bleh), and the 6.x line is nscp's main focus, would
12 > you guys be willing to make netscape6 the default netscape browser?
13 >
14 > George Shapovalov wrote:
15 > > If you would like to see Netscape 6 in gentoo and are willing to spend some
16 > > time on it, please do contribute by any means.
17 > > Now to the technical stuff.
18 > > You do not need to know many details about portage code. What is getting
19 > > submitted is a set of build instructions wrapped in a bash script (and as
20 > > such, the tarball itself will not help much).
21 > > Please see:
22 > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/gentoo-howto.html
23 > > for a description on how to create such an ebuild
24 > > (bash script (quite often very basic) containing install instructions). You
25 > > can also look at ebuilds for other packages.
26 > > The ebuild and any necessary supplementary files (patches, etc) are to be
27 > > submitted to http://bugs.gentoo.org, this page contains an ebuild submission
28 > > description:
29 > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/ebuild-submit.html.
30 > >
31 > > If you still do not feel like creating an ebuild file (BTW you can always go
32 > > to #gentoo channel at irc.openprojects.net to get some real-time ebuild
33 > > creation assistance) you can instead submit build instructions and any url
34 > > pointers to bugs.gentoo.org as a feature request ( but this will take more
35 > > time to process for obvious reasons :)).
36 > >
37 > > George
38 > >
39 > >
40 > > On Friday 12 April 2002 11:32, John Dee wrote:
41 > >
42 > >>I was looking at your netscape packages, and was wondering why you guys
43 > >>weren't using the 6.x series. The reason I ask, is that the 4.x series
44 > >>probably won't have another release (I'm the *NIX build engineer on the
45 > >>project).
46 > >>I'm also one of the build engineers on the 6.x project.
47 > >>Also, if needed, I could make a 6.x package for you guys. It really
48 > >>wouldn't take much to do.
49 > >>The only thing that might be a problem is the fact I don't know portage
50 > >>yet (I've been using gentoo a total of about 3 days).
51 > >>I *COULD* supply you guys with a tarball, and instructions, if you want.
52 > >>
53 > >>_______________________________________________
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57 > >
58 > >
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70
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Netscape Packages antitux@netscape.com (John Dee)