Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] RPM Support

[pvdabeel]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 07:29:07PM -0700, Ron Wills wrote:
> Hi once again
>
>   From all the responses ;) just wondering if this feature is being
> developed and/or supported. Should I put time into extending the portage
> code on this or is it being dropped? I do have a need for this feature
> and need to make a decision as to where to spend my time and efforts
> (maybe rpm building in a separate project?).
>   I would like know if the portage maintainers would be interested in
> patches.

please contribute your patches through bugs.gentoo.org. I'm sure one of the current portage developers will find some time to look at them.

Pieter

> PS.
> I do apologize if this sounds pushy or rude, it's not intended to be ;)
>
> On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 12:31, Ron Wills wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> >   I've noticed the rpm packaging support is a little broken in the
> > current version of portage. Currently it tries to build packages with
> > rpm -bb and with the newer versions of rpm it should be rpmbuild -bb. I
> > have a patch to fixes this (first searches for rpmbuild and then uses
> > rpm if it can't find it).
> >   Also looking into it, I've cleaned up the dynamic spec a bit and added
> > several features (ei. provides tag, post env-update || ldconfig, and so
> > on). I thought before I sent any patches, I just thought I'd inquire
> > about the status of this feature. I've noticed there seems to be two
> > streams for this project at the moment (the current portage and
> > portage-ng).
> >   I have great use for this feature and willing to implement it as fully
> > as I can (time permitting :P), if your interested. I just need to know
> > where to send the patches, for your review ;)
>
> --
> Ron Wills <ron@××××××.ca>
> RW Software



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