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On Saturday 31 January 2004 9:03 pm, Jay Goodman Tamboli wrote: |
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> I'm trying to create an ebuild for streamripper that includes the HTTP |
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> authentication patch from |
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> <http://radsoft.com/~cdb/pub/streamripper-httpauth.patch>. To get it to |
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> build, I had to download the patch, edit it to change "old" to "work.orig" |
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> and "new" to "work", bzip2 it, and put a fake url for it (with a .bz2 on |
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> the end) in the ebuild. What's the best way to make this a usable ebuild? |
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> Put the fixed patch on my server? Post it somewhere else? Put a bunch of |
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> sed and shell commands in the ebuild so it can be pulled from the author's |
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> location? Then, after it works, do I post the ebuild to bugs.gentoo.org? |
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> Thanks, |
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> |
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> /jgt |
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Post the working ebuild, and the patch file, to bugs.gentoo.org. If it's |
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accepted, a Gentoo developer will (in all liklihood) add the patch file into |
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the 'files' directory for the package. |
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Stu |
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