That's good to know. It's been a while since I looked but there used to be some docs on how to actually do an ebuild and what things in it meant.
> > From: John Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/10/06 Thu PM 01:11:21 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage > > The Gentoo documentation on ebuilds is "after-the-fact". > > "Contributing Ebuilds: This guide explains how to submit ebuild packages > through the Bugzilla tracking system." > > I did finally find it. Its apparently not in the gentoo documentation > but there is a Wiki. > > Once I figured out the appropriate search term is "ebuild" I was able to > turn up some decent google results. > > For the sake of anyone else looking: > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_an_Updated_Ebuild > > Thanks, > -- > John Lange > > > On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 13:00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Check out the doc pages on Gentoo about creating ebuilds. You can use > > existing ones as models. > > > > > > > > From: John Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Date: 2005/10/06 Thu AM 11:15:32 EDT > > > To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> > > > Subject: [gentoo-user] Contributing to Portage > > > > > > > > > I frequently need things installed from portage but the most recent > > > version is not available. (digikam is a recent example). > > > > > > I'd be happy to grab the most recent stable source and make it work in > > > Gentoo Portage and contribute it... > > > > > > Is there a How-To for this? > > > > > > My apologies, I know this must be someplace but for the life of me I > > > can't find it. > > > > > > -- > > > John Lange > > > > > > > > > -- > > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > > > > > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
