Re: [gentoo-dev] lsh (and liboop) on Gentoo

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday 17 September 2003 13:05, Alexander Gretencord wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 September 2003 03:32, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > with all this openssh crap thats been happening today, i was wondering if
> > anyone made ebuilds for lsh (and thus liboop) for Gentoo ... i was
> > looking at liboop and they use the autotools pretty poorly imho ...
>
> Well there are ebuilds in bugzilla but carpaski set them to fixed without
> bothering to add them to the official portage tree as noone seemed to be
> interested in those ebuilds. Maybe you have better luck this time. Tell us
> about the bug report here so we can all post, so it gets in this time :)

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28971

> > i made a few patches so as to make those aspects optional, but i cant get
> > the autotools to regenerate the Makefile.in and configure files correctly
>
> Well if you figure it out, send the patches to the maintainers, they
> probably just didn't add such things as nobody complained and they don't
> see a need for that. Was the same with a DESTDIR variable in chrony until I
> wanted to make an ebuild. Richard was quite pleased with the patch once he
> saw the need for that.

yeah i usually do ... i just hate it when a package goes unmaintained upstream 
and we have to basically sit on the patches ;(

-mike