[Rlib-users] Re: Inclusion of RLIB in Gentoo

[Bob D. <bd...@si...>]

Hi,

Including RLIB in Gentoo is fine w/ me.  Good luck packaging, I know
it's a bear because of all the possible dependencies.

In the future feel free to email the list directly concerning problems.

Thank you for your efforts

- Bob

On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 01:08 -0500, Jay Pfeifer wrote:
> Dear Mr. Doan,
> 
> My name is Jay Pfeifer and I am a developer for Gentoo (http:// 
> www.gentoo.org/). I have been creating an RLIB compile/install script  
> for persons running Gentoo (hereafter called an "ebuild"). I am  
> writing to ensure you would have no issues with Gentoo including RLIB  
> as a package in Gentoo. So far, I have been able to enable/disable 10  
> different build-time options (doc, gd, java, mysql, odbc, perl, php,  
> postgres, python, & utf8). Though there is still quite a bit of  
> testing that needs to occur (and more clean-ups like when disabling  
> perl/python support). Initial arch support will be targeted for x86  
> and x86_64.
> 
> The ebuild I mention, builds a binary of your package from the source  
> file. We (Gentoo) are not distributing a binary of your file, we just  
> point the end-user to a Sourceforge mirror, they fetch the tarball,  
> and let our packaging system (Portage) compile/install the package.
> 
> Please let me know if you would have any issues with the inclusion  
> once all is tested. I have been testing the ebuild against the  
> tarball you posted at http://www.sicompos.com/~bdoan/ 
> rlib-1.3.5.tar.gz as it has some needed fixes over 1.3.4. I have no  
> intentions of releasing an ebuild to use that testing version, I only  
> used the snapshot in preparation of having an ebuild ready when 1.3.5  
> would be released.
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Jay Pfeifer
> Gentoo Linux Developer
> Core System/Kernel
> 
> 
-- 
Bob Doan <bd...@si...>