[PD] I created an ebuild for pd-0.40-p2

carmen _ at whats-your.name
Mon Apr 16 04:27:07 CEST 2007


On Mon Apr 16, 2007 at 03:39:25AM +0200, federico wrote:
> just some notes:
> I was thinking on how to manage releases, since many externals do not
> have releases numbers.
> also: in gentoo binary packages aren't much in use. gentoo *is* a
> build farm: the user compiles the softwares that wants to installs,
> choosing compile options via tag-like switches (USE flags). (you can
> actually use it to build binary packages working out-of-the-box)
> that information is handled in ebuilds, special shell scripts that
> have the "version&dependency
> check,fetch,unpack,compile,test,install,merge" recipe.
> 
> so a gentoo repository it's just a collection of ebuilds, metadata and
> changelogs, no bin packages.
> 
> a note about the development: to commit ebuilds properly, automating
> the check of some rules and the writing of changelog, there's a script
> (sunrise-commit) wich relies on SVN (didn't look how can be adapted to
> CVS), so it may be better work on pd-overlay project separately, and
> sync to pd-cvs or wathever vc when doing point releases of pd/pd-ext
> (also useful for tracking external's versions) (I can add you as
> developer of pd-overlay, if you are intended to help testing, or
> fixing ebuilds, or using it as a build platform.... just give me your
> sf.net usernmae)

where are the ebuilds now. sunrise? pro-audio? pdlay?




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