Re: [gentoo-user] Generate an ebuild for mldonkey-3.1.3

[Alexandre Paz Mena]

Ok, thank you very much!

Apart from that, I should add those files to the dependencies, right?

On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 4:33 AM, Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com>wrote:

> On 09/15/2012 11:59 AM, Alexandre Paz Mena wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, I'll post a bug to upstream.
> >
> > Meanwhile, instead of adding libs, I worked adding them to econf.
> >
> > But a new problem has appeared, mldonkey-3.1.3 seems to not have a
> > init.d script. I thought that was the ebuild work, but both ebuilds are
> > almost the same and now I'm looking through the tarballs to see any
> > differences related to that.
>
> The init scripts are usually stored in the package's "files" directory.
> You should see the mldonkey one here:
>
>   $ ls /usr/portage/net-p2p/mldonkey/files/
>   total 12K
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.6K 2008-06-30 12:12 2.9.5-execstacks.patch
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  887 2007-01-24 12:40 mldonkey.confd-2.8
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.1K 2011-10-23 14:22 mldonkey.initd
>
> The ebuild in portage (tries to) install this:
>
>   ...
>   newinitd "${FILESDIR}/mldonkey.initd" mldonkey
>
>
> A guess: you copied the ebuilds to an overlay, but didn't copy the
> "files" directory. Normally you'd get an error as a result, but there's
> a bug (lots of them, actually) in the ebuild. In earlier EAPIs, the
> dofoo/newfoo functions could fail but would not do so automatically. The
> usual way to handle this is with e.g.
>
>   newinitd x y || die "newinitd didn't work"
>
> The ebuild doesn't do this, so it happily continues after failing to
> install the init script.
>
>


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Alexandre Paz Mena