Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage

That's good to know.  It's been a while since I looked but there used to be some docs on how to actually do an ebuild and what things in it meant.

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> From: John Lange <john.lange@×××××××.ca>
> Date: 2005/10/06 Thu PM 01:11:21 EDT
> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage
>
> The Gentoo documentation on ebuilds is "after-the-fact".
>
> "Contributing Ebuilds: This guide explains how to submit ebuild packages
> through the Bugzilla tracking system."
>
> I did finally find it. Its apparently not in the gentoo documentation
> but there is a Wiki.
>
> Once I figured out the appropriate search term is "ebuild" I was able to
> turn up some decent google results.
>
> For the sake of anyone else looking:
>
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_an_Updated_Ebuild
>
> Thanks,
> --
> John Lange
>
>
> On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 13:00 -0400, brettholcomb@×××××××××.net wrote:
> > Check out the doc pages on Gentoo about creating ebuilds.  You can use existing ones as models.
> >
> > >
> > > From: John Lange <john.lange@×××××××.ca>
> > > Date: 2005/10/06 Thu AM 11:15:32 EDT
> > > To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
> > > Subject: [gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage
> > >
> > >
> > > I frequently need things installed from portage but the most recent
> > > version is not available. (digikam is a recent example).
> > >
> > > I'd be happy to grab the most recent stable source and make it work in
> > > Gentoo Portage and contribute it...
> > >
> > > Is there a How-To for this?
> > >
> > > My apologies, I know this must be someplace but for the life of me I
> > > can't find it.
> > >
> > > --
> > > John Lange
> > >
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