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

2005-10-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 1 Oct 2005 11:20:18 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: Since I can't know in advance what the bug# is, why does a search for the ebuild by name come up empty in gentoo bugzilla? Because, AFAIK, Bugzilla defaults to only searching open bugs. If you search for ALL dekagen it will search

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

2005-10-01 Thread maxim wexler
--- Greg Yasko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maxim wexler blissfix at yahoo.com writes: 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

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

2005-10-01 Thread maxim wexler
There is now an ebuild in Gentoo's bugzilla, so you could use Portdir_Overlay and provide some much needed testing. Well, I found it:

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

2005-10-01 Thread maxim wexler
--- Greg Yasko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Yasko gyasko at cox.net writes: Login as root and do a mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/app-cdr/dekagen Then cd to the dekagen directory you just created. Copy the ebuild, which is at gentoo bugzilla under app-cdr/dekagen to your

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

2005-10-01 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 13:54 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: --- Greg Yasko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Yasko gyasko at cox.net writes: Login as root and do a mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/app-cdr/dekagen Then cd to the dekagen directory you just created. Copy the

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

2005-09-29 Thread Greg Yasko
maxim wexler blissfix at yahoo.com writes: 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-user] Re: no ebuild what to do?

2005-09-29 Thread Greg Yasko
Greg Yasko gyasko at cox.net writes: Login as root and do a mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/app-cdr/dekagen Then cd to the dekagen directory you just created. Copy the ebuild, which is at gentoo bugzilla under app-cdr/dekagen to your dekagen directory. Run ebuild dekagen-1.0.2.ebuild

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

2005-09-29 Thread Nick Rout
Forgive me for saying so, but this ebuild seems a little off to me: 1. why install to /opt? 2. DEPEND s on a lot of optional stuff from my quick read of the dekagen docs this morning. Can you do DEPEND with alternatives? like DEPEND bladeenc|lame|vorbistools 3. aren't all the DEPENDS actually

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

2005-09-29 Thread Greg Yasko
Nick Rout nick at rout.co.nz writes: Forgive me for saying so, but this ebuild seems a little off to me: Change it to meet the Gentoo standards, if you have the time. I'd like to see what all you'd change -- it's my first ebuild I pirated the structure from bashburn-1.6.ebuild:) -G.Y.

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

2005-09-29 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 02:36:30 + (UTC) Greg Yasko wrote: Nick Rout nick at rout.co.nz writes: Forgive me for saying so, but this ebuild seems a little off to me: Change it to meet the Gentoo standards, if you have the time. I'd like to see what all you'd change -- it's my first