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From: Elfyn McBratney <elfyn.mcbratney@×××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Paul Varner <gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org>, gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] re2c woes - badly broken with gcc 3.x - offering help, possible ebuild maintainership
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:27:10
Message-Id: 200404142224.29927@i.emcb.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] re2c woes - badly broken with gcc 3.x - offering help, possible ebuild maintainership by Paul Varner
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4 On Wednesday 14 Apr 2004 21:16, Paul Varner wrote:
5 > On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 17:00, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
6 > > > > Elfyn
7 > > >
8 > > > Heh - I appreciate you taking the time to look at this for us. Let me
9 > > > know when you've got something you want us to look at.
10 > >
11 > > OK, I have something.. the only problem I see is that the re2c.org
12 > > people won't be doing releases. They'll be working from CVS only.
13 > > Marcus Boerger asked this:
14 > >
15 > > ". . .It would also be nice if gentoo could go with RPMs we provide
16 > > from CVS now (see README.in file)."
17 >
18 > The RPM eclass can be used to extract data from RPMs. If they provide a
19 > source RPM, then you shouldn't have very many issues with creating an
20 > ebuild to extract and build the software.
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22 AFAICS, they do not (provide a SRPM that is). I will ask. They provide a
23 spec and a script to make the RPM, though.
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25 > If they don't provide source RPM's you can still use the eclass to
26 > create a binary ebuild.
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28 I'm not familiar with the rpm eclass.. I'll have a look at it. Thanks.
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30 Elfyn
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