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On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 10:40:09AM -0400, Todd Berman wrote: |
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> Not to generate useless traffic, but I feel it is very important to |
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> reiterate this. |
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> Please, please, please attach your ebuilds to bugzilla as text/plain and |
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> as single files. Two common errors I have seen plenty are attaching a |
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> .tar.gz or .tar.bz2, or, and more of a problem for me, are the text |
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> files attached, but set as an octet stream so the viewer wont kick in. |
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> This cant be stressed enough as the 'proper' way to submit an ebuild if |
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> you want to see it committed as fast as possible. |
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> And as an aside, maybe zhen or whoever maintains bugs.g.o can set |
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> text/plain as the default file upload, because i assume plenty of people |
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> just forget to change it. |
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> --Todd |
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> On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 10:33, Alastair Tse wrote: |
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> > On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 15:22, MAL wrote: |
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> > > Is it better to upload an ebuild as a .tar.bz2 with digests, patches |
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> > > etc. all included? |
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> > Ebuilds should not be attached as tar.bz2, they should be in text/plain. |
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> > It's actually written in the Ebuils Contribution Guide somewhere, and |
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> > also one of the most common problems with ebuild submission as I listed |
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> > in my ebuild mistakes list |
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> > (http://cvs.gentoo.org/~liquidx/ebuildmistakes.html). |
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> > Cheers, |
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Just to throw in a "me too" - it drives me absolutely nuts when people |
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don't submit ebuilds as plain text. Patches et al should also be plain |
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text. It's much easier for me to review it that way and will definitely |
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get your ebuild processed faster. |
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Jon Portnoy |
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