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From: antitux@netscape.com (John Dee)
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Netscape Packages
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:34:43
Message-Id: 3CB736C4.9010604@netscape.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Netscape Packages by "Jared H. Hudson"
1 okay, so what question did that answer?
2 mozilla != netscape
3
4
5 Jared H. Hudson wrote:
6 > I think mozilla 0.9.9 is what most people build these days on Gentoo.
7 >
8 > -Jared H.
9 >
10 > On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, John Dee wrote:
11 >
12 >
13 >>One more question I've got.
14 >>Would you guys be willing to replace netscape 4.x with netscape 6 as the
15 >>default browser?
16 >>Since netscape 4.x isn't really being maintained anymore (I do builds
17 >>once a week, blah bleh), and the 6.x line is nscp's main focus, would
18 >>you guys be willing to make netscape6 the default netscape browser?
19 >>
20 >>George Shapovalov wrote:
21 >>
22 >>>If you would like to see Netscape 6 in gentoo and are willing to spend some
23 >>>time on it, please do contribute by any means.
24 >>>Now to the technical stuff.
25 >>>You do not need to know many details about portage code. What is getting
26 >>>submitted is a set of build instructions wrapped in a bash script (and as
27 >>>such, the tarball itself will not help much).
28 >>>Please see:
29 >>>http://www.gentoo.org/doc/gentoo-howto.html
30 >>>for a description on how to create such an ebuild
31 >>>(bash script (quite often very basic) containing install instructions). You
32 >>>can also look at ebuilds for other packages.
33 >>>The ebuild and any necessary supplementary files (patches, etc) are to be
34 >>>submitted to http://bugs.gentoo.org, this page contains an ebuild submission
35 >>>description:
36 >>>http://www.gentoo.org/doc/ebuild-submit.html.
37 >>>
38 >>>If you still do not feel like creating an ebuild file (BTW you can always go
39 >>>to #gentoo channel at irc.openprojects.net to get some real-time ebuild
40 >>>creation assistance) you can instead submit build instructions and any url
41 >>>pointers to bugs.gentoo.org as a feature request ( but this will take more
42 >>>time to process for obvious reasons :)).
43 >>>
44 >>>George
45 >>>
46 >>>
47 >>>On Friday 12 April 2002 11:32, John Dee wrote:
48 >>>
49 >>>
50 >>>>I was looking at your netscape packages, and was wondering why you guys
51 >>>>weren't using the 6.x series. The reason I ask, is that the 4.x series
52 >>>>probably won't have another release (I'm the *NIX build engineer on the
53 >>>>project).
54 >>>>I'm also one of the build engineers on the 6.x project.
55 >>>>Also, if needed, I could make a 6.x package for you guys. It really
56 >>>>wouldn't take much to do.
57 >>>>The only thing that might be a problem is the fact I don't know portage
58 >>>>yet (I've been using gentoo a total of about 3 days).
59 >>>>I *COULD* supply you guys with a tarball, and instructions, if you want.
60 >>>>
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Netscape Packages "Jared H. Hudson" <jhhudso@××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Netscape Packages Jim Nutt <jim@×××××.org>