Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Official overlay support

[Rumen Yotov]

On Thursday 23 March 2006 20:43, Chris Bainbridge wrote:
> On 23/03/06, Rumen Yotov <rumen@××××××.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Using a remote overlays is rather simple, just do "emerge layman".
> > Read the einfo and then "man layman".
> > It works flawlessly, just tested this with one remote overlay.
> > Beside that "man layman" explains pretty much of it's innerwork.
> > PS:There's an article in "gentoo-wiki.com" with a list of overlays.
> > HTH.Rumen
>
> What is the status of those overlays? I believe the php, webapps, and
> java ones (at least) are official (in that they're run by gentoo devs)
> and bugs are to be reported to bugs.g.o, no?  But the wiki page
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/Portage_Overlay_Listing says "NEVER report bugs
> at bugs.gentoo.org for these ebuilds." So where should users report
> bugs? And how are they to know that?
Hi,
From a very quick scan - yes there're some overlays made/supported by Gentoo 
devs and some others are hosted/maintained by users,so i think for the latter 
case you can't use Bugzilla in a sense that the ebuild is not in the tree.
But looking from another angle (POV) if this is a new version ebuild or an 
ebuild for a new (not in the tree) package, why not report it's 
status/workings/bugs in Bugzilla, generally it'll be an usefull info.
Like now when somebody files a Bug on a new version or makes and attaches 
initial ebuild for a new package.
Of course all depends on the policy (if any is made) about this external 
(official & unofficial) overlays and Bugzilla.
PS: you can yourself see/read there're big differences in opinion even between 
Gentoo devs conserning overlays. So a bug-report assigned to a dev who 
doesn't want to support overlays will probably get "WONTFIX" whatever.
Rumen