[gentoo-user] no ebuild what to do?

2005-09-29 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, I'm sure this has been covered before but can't seem to google for it. I'd like to install dekagen but there are no ebuilds for it. I suppose I could just unpack it and follow the INSTALL doc but is that the appropriate gentoo way? -mw

Re: [gentoo-user] no ebuild what to do?

2005-09-29 Thread Michael Crute
On 9/29/05, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody,I'm sure this has been covered before but can't seemto google for it.I'd like to install dekagen but there are no ebuilds for it. I suppose I could just unpack it and followthe INSTALL doc but is that the appropriate gentooway?You

Re: [gentoo-user] no ebuild what to do?

2005-09-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, maxim wexler wrote: I'm sure this has been covered before but can't seem to google for it. I'd like to install dekagen but there are no ebuilds for it. I suppose I could just unpack it and follow the INSTALL doc but is that the appropriate gentoo way? The Gentoo Way

RE: [gentoo-user] no ebuild what to do?

2005-09-29 Thread Dave Nebinger
I'd like to install dekagen but there are no ebuilds for it. I suppose I could just unpack it and follow the INSTALL doc but is that the appropriate gentoo way? It's the general unix way of doing things, so sure it fits into gentoo also. Ebuilds are not really necessary unless you believe a

Re: [gentoo-user] no ebuild what to do?

2005-09-29 Thread Yoandy Rodriguez
You should first look into bugzilla just to make see if there is a bug request for that package, then do the overlay thing ;) On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 10:18 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: Hello everybody, I'm sure this has been covered before but can't seem to google for it. I'd like to install

Re: [gentoo-user] no ebuild what to do?

2005-09-29 Thread Nick Rout
The others have told you how to incorporate it in portage. It is nice to write an ebuild for these things as it makes updating and removal of the package easy. But this package is one bash script and one man page. As long as you remeber where you installed it to updating and removal of two