Hey Mark,
Cool, your in Asheville. I used to live there; grew up there
actually. - as far as your ebuild's; take a look at the following sites.
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=1
http://devmanual.gentoo.org/quickstart/index.html
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_an_Updated_Ebuild
once done with the actual ebuild,
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ebuild-submit.xml
I use layman, and create my own ebuilds for testing purposes in it.
hope this helps,
deface
On Jun 4, 2008, at 8:53 AM, Mark Haney wrote:
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?
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