RE: [DotGNU]Anyone doing Gentoo packaging ?

[Rainer Groesslinger]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gopal V [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 1:02 PM
> To: DotGNU Mailing List
> Subject: [DotGNU]Anyone doing Gentoo packaging ?
>
>
> Hi All,
>       I just took a look at gentoo packaging and their system seems to be
> the simplest packaging you could ever imagine. So is there a gentoo user
> who is ready to get hacking on an ebuild ? ...
>
>       I have a good idea on how to go about it ... But I can't
> get a gentoo
> box here ... An ebuild is a shellscript and should be easy to write ...
>
> src_compile() {
>       ./configure     --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man \
>               --infodir=/usr/share/info || die "./configure failed"
>       MAKEOPTS="" emake || die
> }
>
> Which seems to be the done thing for almost all gentoo packages
> .... But I
> need someone to work this out into a full package in a gentoo box.
>
> Do I see a hand rise ?


Yes, me :)

But as I said on irc my hd crashed and I have to reinstall gentoo and that's
not that easy with only a few kb/sec internet connection...But I can try
building an ebuild for pnet then..If I fail, I am at least available for
testing !

Rainer