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If one tries to modify the ebuild and test a change, the system issues a file size error. How do you get around that? |
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--- On Mon, 3/29/10, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help |
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> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> Date: Monday, March 29, 2010, 11:11 AM |
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> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:11 AM, |
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> Stroller |
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> <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> |
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> wrote: |
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> > |
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> > On 29 Mar 2010, at 13:22, Dale wrote: |
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> >>> |
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> >>> ... |
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> >>> Filling bug reports is important. I filled |
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> over 50 on b.g.o this year |
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> >>> alone. All of them are version bumps or bad |
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> homepages. Some programs haven't |
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> >>> been bumped for 5 years. |
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> >> |
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> >> That is true but I don't have a account |
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> there. Someone else does so they |
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> >> filed it for me. I don't guess it matters |
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> who files it as long as it is |
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> >> filed. |
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> > |
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> > It's helpful if you can subscribe to email updates, |
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> and help test when |
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> > revisions are available. |
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> > |
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> > Sometimes an ebuild is posted to as an attachment to |
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> the bug - you download |
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> > it and add it to your local overlay. Thus you may get |
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> the updated version |
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> > before it's available in the Portage tree (some |
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> ebuilds are attached to bugs |
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> > for packages which never become accepted) and you can |
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> at least add a "works |
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> > for me" comment and encourage the devs by remarking |
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> how useful it is to you. |
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> And even if you've got nothing new to contribute to the |
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> problem, you |
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> can vote for bugs that are important to you. |
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