Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Update www-apache/mod_jk to 1.2.15
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 10:44:49
Message-Id: 4486AE05.3050905@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Update www-apache/mod_jk to 1.2.15 by Paul Dlug
1 Paul Dlug wrote:
2 >
3 >
4 > On 6/6/06, *Grant Goodyear* <g2boojum@g.o
5 > <mailto:g2boojum@g.o>> wrote:
6 >
7 > Paul Dlug wrote:
8 > > The following patch upgrades www-apache/mod_jk to 1.2.15 (current
9 > latest
10 > > available version in portage is 1.2.13 which has numerous evil bugs).
11 > > This is my first submission so I wasn't sure if attached patches are
12 > > preferred to inline ones (or vice versa). Let me know if there's any
13 > > other recommended submission techniques.
14 >
15 > Oops, this list is for portage (the package manager) development, not
16 > for the portage tree (the ebuilds, eclasses, etcetera found in
17 > /usr/portage). Issues with the latter (such as an update to mod_jk)
18 > should be filed on bugs.gentoo.org <http://bugs.gentoo.org>. (I
19 > know, it's a patch, not a bug,
20 > but we use bugzilla for all of those sorts of things.)
21 >
22 >
23 > Thanks for the info, I'll submit it in Bugzilla, someone should really
24 > correct the info on the portage page in the "Submitting Patches" section:
25 >
26 > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/
27
28 Thank you for your input, I've updated the site to hopefully make it a
29 bit more clear which patches go here, and which go on bugs.gentoo.org
30
31
32 > Another newbie question: is there an equivalent of the FreeBSD Porters
33 > Handbook for portage? Something that covers how to create ebuild files
34 > and general guidelines for USE flags?
35 >
36 > Thanks,
37 > Paul
38 >
39
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