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On Sunday 11 March 2007 05:25:24 Chris wrote: |
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> I will begin by stating my problem. I have the source code (in |
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> *.tar.bz2 format) for a couple of pieces of software that are not in the |
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> Portage tree at all. I would like to compile and install them in such a |
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> way that I can use them, and even so Portage recognizes them. |
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> I have read the official Gentoo documentation regarding Portage, ebuilds |
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> and diverting from the Portage tree and while it gave me some ideas, it |
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> really didn't fully answer the question of exactly *how* to do what I want. |
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> I am hoping that someone can provide me with resources - examples and/or |
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> a walkthrough would be especially helpful. I realize that the Gentoo |
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> team can only do so much and carefully test each package before putting |
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> it in the official tree. There are just some pieces of software that I |
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> want that are not even in the testing tree. |
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The devmanual is a good place to start. If you use IRC then #gentoo-dev-help |
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at freenode is a good place to get more help... |
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http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml |
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Bo Andresen |