I unofficially maintain the ebuilds in that I originally wrote them. If the patch applies cleanly to the rat we distribute it's pretty trivial to include. I could easily get it merged and send a new ebuild.
On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 16:24 -0700, Andrew Replogle wrote: > Steve, > > do you use gentoo at all? I was wondering if you or anyone else knew > how I might merge these changes into an "ebuild". > > It seems that from the bombed out vic install theres still a dir in > /var/tmp/portage called vic with an ag-media directory in there.. > would I patch there? or try to patch from the PORTDIR_OVERLAY where > the original ebuilds are? > > Does anyone know who maintains the AG gentoo packages/ebuilds? Maybe > we could get them to merge this in officially? > > from the /var/tmp/portage/vic-1.1.13/work I tried to run a patch -p1 < > ~andrew/ag2.3-alsa-mbus-rtp-ssl.diff --dry-run > > and right off I get: > > The next patch would delete the file common/confdefs.h, > which does not exist! > > among other things.. am I passing the correct paramter p level to > patch or is this the wrong directory.. I went to look for a confdefs.h > under common in the ag-media under this path and found none.. > > > Any info is greatly appreciated. > > Andrew > > Andrew > > On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:55:09 +1100, Steve Smith > <ssm...@vislab.usyd.edu.au> wrote: > > > I'm currently experimenting with maintaining my changes in Darcs*, which > > > would make experimental branches a lot simpler, and allow developers to > > > cherry-pick useful patches. > > > > I've now created a Darcs repository, you can pull it with: > > > > darcs get http://people.vislab.usyd.edu.au/~ssmith/accessgrid/ag-media > > > > This has a finer-grained set of patches that are annotated, so that may > > be more useful for integrating. > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > Steve > > -- > > Steve Smith, SysAdmin/Programmer | "When you have no nails your hammer > > grows > > Vislab, University of Sydney | restless, and you begin to throw > > sideways > > Phone: (02) 9351 5967 | glances at screws and pieces of > > string." > > Email: ssm...@vislab.usyd.edu.au | -- Jarkko Hietaniemi > > > > > -- Ti Leggett <legg...@mcs.anl.gov>
