2008/6/4 Mark Haney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Okay, I've gone over the docs and the HOWTOs on gentoo.org and I'm still a > wee bit (okay maybe a lot) fuzzy on developing/updating ebuilds. > > I have a particular app I use quite often (DVDStyler), but the ebuild in > portage is pretty old (1.5.2_p2) compared to the latest version available > (1.6.2), the difference being about a year between them. > > I know I can just compile the source for the latest, but I'd like to update > the ebuild to learn how to do it. The docs however, aren't helpful from the > standpoint that there's no clear cut procedure for setting up a devel > environment for building/testing an ebuild locally without becoming a gentoo > developer, per se. > > Me, I rather like having step-by-step instructions on my first go round so > I can 'do it right' the first time, then I'll know how to fix it if I bork > something. > > Is there something like that floating around? >
the easiest way is to rename the old ebuild to 1.6.2, to remove from it the epatch options and see if it builds. harder stuff consist of testing the manual build of the package (download, configure, make, but not make install, then test various configure options and retest make and then put them in the ebuild). -- dott. ing. beso
