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On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Klaus-J. Wolf wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I would like to submit ports to the Gentoo Portage tree. Do I need |
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> access to the CVS repository for doing so? How can I get it? |
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To avoid some potential confusion: what you call "ports" we call |
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"ebuilds". If you look at the following: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/ebuild-submit.html |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/gentoo-howto.html |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/eclass-howto.html |
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They should explain how to write your ebuild, and how to submit it. |
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A word of warning: Some times, it takes a while before your ebuild is |
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included in the distribution. We currently spend a lot of time on |
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system-wide changes (keywords, fixups for the pending 1.3 release). |
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If your ebuild passes lintool's tests, has a changelog, comes with a |
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digest and is otherwise in perfect condition, it will in general be |
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included within a few days. If the developers need to modify it in |
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any way, it can take weeks. |
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Please don't be discouraged. We're working as fast as we can, even though |
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it may not always appear so. |
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Kind regards, |
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Karl T |
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