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I think mozilla 0.9.9 is what most people build these days on Gentoo. |
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-Jared H. |
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On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, John Dee wrote: |
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> One more question I've got. |
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> Would you guys be willing to replace netscape 4.x with netscape 6 as the |
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> default browser? |
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> Since netscape 4.x isn't really being maintained anymore (I do builds |
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> once a week, blah bleh), and the 6.x line is nscp's main focus, would |
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> you guys be willing to make netscape6 the default netscape browser? |
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> George Shapovalov wrote: |
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> > If you would like to see Netscape 6 in gentoo and are willing to spend some |
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> > time on it, please do contribute by any means. |
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> > Now to the technical stuff. |
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> > You do not need to know many details about portage code. What is getting |
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> > submitted is a set of build instructions wrapped in a bash script (and as |
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> > such, the tarball itself will not help much). |
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> > Please see: |
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> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/gentoo-howto.html |
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> > for a description on how to create such an ebuild |
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> > (bash script (quite often very basic) containing install instructions). You |
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> > can also look at ebuilds for other packages. |
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> > The ebuild and any necessary supplementary files (patches, etc) are to be |
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> > submitted to http://bugs.gentoo.org, this page contains an ebuild submission |
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> > description: |
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> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/ebuild-submit.html. |
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> > |
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> > If you still do not feel like creating an ebuild file (BTW you can always go |
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> > to #gentoo channel at irc.openprojects.net to get some real-time ebuild |
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> > creation assistance) you can instead submit build instructions and any url |
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> > pointers to bugs.gentoo.org as a feature request ( but this will take more |
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> > time to process for obvious reasons :)). |
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> > George |
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> > On Friday 12 April 2002 11:32, John Dee wrote: |
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> >>I was looking at your netscape packages, and was wondering why you guys |
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> >>weren't using the 6.x series. The reason I ask, is that the 4.x series |
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> >>probably won't have another release (I'm the *NIX build engineer on the |
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> >>project). |
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> >>I'm also one of the build engineers on the 6.x project. |
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> >>Also, if needed, I could make a 6.x package for you guys. It really |
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> >>wouldn't take much to do. |
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> >>The only thing that might be a problem is the fact I don't know portage |
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> >>yet (I've been using gentoo a total of about 3 days). |
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> >>I *COULD* supply you guys with a tarball, and instructions, if you want. |
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