Re: [gentoo-user] no ebuild what to do?
On 9/29/05, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody,I'm sure this has been covered before but can't seemto google for it.I'd like to install dekagen but there are no ebuilds for it. I suppose I could just unpack it and followthe INSTALL doc but is that the appropriate gentooway?You can build it by hand but then whats the point of running Gentoo? Instead you should write an ebuild ( http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2) then contibute it back to the community( http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ebuild-submit.xml), or find someone else who will do it for you/already has done it and use their ebuild (http://bugs.gentoo.org)-Mike _Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux, because reboots are for installing hardware.In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?
Re: [gentoo-user] no ebuild what to do?
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, maxim wexler wrote: I'm sure this has been covered before but can't seem to google for it. I'd like to install dekagen but there are no ebuilds for it. I suppose I could just unpack it and follow the INSTALL doc but is that the appropriate gentoo way? The Gentoo Way would be to switch over PORTAGE_OVERLAY (see /etc/make.conf) and write an ebuild for it ;-) -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] no ebuild what to do?
I'd like to install dekagen but there are no ebuilds for it. I suppose I could just unpack it and follow the INSTALL doc but is that the appropriate gentoo way? It's the general unix way of doing things, so sure it fits into gentoo also. Ebuilds are not really necessary unless you believe a lot of other folks will be using the same package. That said, having written some ebuilds lately, I can tell you for the most part the process is pretty easy. Start with an ebuild for a package that is similar to what you're going to install, make the various changes for the package (the gentoo doc for the ebuilds is your best friend here), and drop it into your overlay. If you want to release it, it goes easily into bugs.gentoo.org. If you don't want to do the ebuild yourself, and you believe at some point in the future someone else might get one into portage, you can always use the ./configure script to install to /usr/local - it would still be available yet allows for future emerging should it get added. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] no ebuild what to do?
You should first look into bugzilla just to make see if there is a bug request for that package, then do the overlay thing ;) On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 10:18 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: Hello everybody, I'm sure this has been covered before but can't seem to google for it. I'd like to install dekagen but there are no ebuilds for it. I suppose I could just unpack it and follow the INSTALL doc but is that the appropriate gentoo way? -mw __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com -- live free() or die() Jadex signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] no ebuild what to do?
The others have told you how to incorporate it in portage. It is nice to write an ebuild for these things as it makes updating and removal of the package easy. But this package is one bash script and one man page. As long as you remeber where you installed it to updating and removal of two files shouldn't be a problem. OTOH writing an ebuild is a useful skill to learn, I did it for a game recently and learned a lot. I can now install and remove the game, and update it at will. Just a pity the powers that be don't bother promoting such stuff from bugs.gentoo.org. On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 10:18:34 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler wrote: Hello everybody, I'm sure this has been covered before but can't seem to google for it. I'd like to install dekagen but there are no ebuilds for it. I suppose I could just unpack it and follow the INSTALL doc but is that the appropriate gentoo way? -mw __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
