[gentoo-dev] f2c package

[Ryan Tolboom]

Hello,

I was making an ebuild package for f2c (fortran to C translator) when I ran
into a couple of problems.  Namely I don't know what to call the ebuild script,
because the only way to tell what version of the source you have is to download
it and look at version.c.  The "official" source comes from
ftp://netlib.bell-labs.com/netlib/f2c/src.tar, and they don't keep old versions
around.  Another problem with this source is that it comes as a tar file
containing a directory full of gzipped source files (seems a little backwards
to me).  I noticed similar postings to this on the NetBSD mailling list, and
what they decided is that they should keep a snapshot on their server of the
format f2c-VERSION.tar.gz, which is a tarball of a directory called f2c-VERSION
containing the source.  In this case it would be called f2c-20010227.tar.gz.
I think this sounds resonable, and I'd like some feedback.  Attached is an
ebuild script that builds and installs f2c from the current sources at
ftp://netlib.bell-labs.com/netlib/f2c/src.tar, at the time of this posting it
was version 20010227.

		-ryan