Matias Grana wrote:
First an ebuild needs to be made and submitted to bugs.gentoo.org.
This you should be able to do. Next, that bug needs to catch the
interest of a developer, and if he/she likes it, it will get into
portage. From my experience, this rarely happens with low profile
programs.
Jonathan
doesn't look very promising :( Anyway, I just built it. I'll play with
it and if I find it interesting and useful I'd eventually try to produce
the ebuild. At least, it should be a learning experience :-)
Yes, and anyone can pull ebuilds from the bugs database. This way your
effort can be helpful to others even if it never makes it into portage.
Now, suppose I get to convince a developer that this is a good thing to add
to portage. In this case, who is in charge of mask/unmask the program,
keep it up to date, etc.?
My understanding is that only developers can commit changes like
architecture keywords, updated ebuilds, etc. However, anyone can submit
version updates through the bugs system.
Jonathan
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