RE: [TiLP-devel] Status of TiLP & Gentoo Linux

[Brent R. <bre...@ca...>]

Ok, replying to myself here...

It looks like I took too long getting TiLP into Portage; someone else beat me 
to it and posted some ebuilds to Gentoo's Bugzilla (it was probably easy for 
him after I talked with Romain about fixing the Makefiles to work with the 
Portage build system). So, I posted a comment to the Gentoo Bugzilla entry 
saying I had some ebuilds made too. I'll see if I can help merge my ebuilds 
with the ones posted to Bugzilla, and hopefully it won't be too long before 
TiLP is an official part of Gentoo!

Brent

>===== Original Message From Brent Redeker <bre...@ca...> =====
>Hi,
>
>For those who don't know me, I'm the packager for TiLP on Gentoo Linux, which
>basically involves creating an "ebuild" - a shell script that works with the
>Gentoo Portage system to automatically download, compile, and install 
software
>from source. From what I hear, it is quite similar to the FreeBSD ports 
system
>(although I've never had a chance to try FreeBSD myself).
>
>Anyway, I created ebuilds for libticables, libticalcs, libtifiles, and TiLP.
>These ebuilds are available at http://www.cc.edu/~bredeker/tilp/. Although
>these are complete, and seem to work fairly well, the final step is to
>actually get them included in the official Gentoo repository.
>
>I've been putting it off for a little while (too much schoolwork for me in 
the
>past couple of months). But since my finals will be done this coming 
Thursday,
>and I will have to move back home and lose my Internet connection, I decided 
I
>would make one last flurry of activity and submit the ebuilds. I will be 
doing
>that (hopefully) today, and will report back if/when I get it done.
>
>However, just getting the ebuilds submitted doesn't guarantee inclusion - and
>definitely not immediate inclusion. Unfortunately, since the Gentoo
>maintainers seem to be backlogged by the much-delayed Gentoo 1.4 release, I'm
>not holding my breath that TiLP will even be in Portage when my fall semester
>resumes. But at least the ebuilds will be ready to go when the backlog does
>start clearing up.
>
>Brent Redeker
>
>P.S. roms - I think that "bug" that I though the TiLP build process had with
>not finding libusb 0.1.7 was my fault. I just reinstalled TiLP today, with
>libusb 0.1.7 and it worked fine. With that out of the way, I am much more
>confident about going ahead with the Portage submission of TiLP.
>
>
>
>
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