On Saturday 31 January 2004 9:03 pm, Jay Goodman Tamboli wrote: > I'm trying to create an ebuild for streamripper that includes the HTTP > authentication patch from > <http://radsoft.com/~cdb/pub/streamripper-httpauth.patch>. To get it to > build, I had to download the patch, edit it to change "old" to "work.orig" > and "new" to "work", bzip2 it, and put a fake url for it (with a .bz2 on > the end) in the ebuild. What's the best way to make this a usable ebuild? > Put the fixed patch on my server? Post it somewhere else? Put a bunch of > sed and shell commands in the ebuild so it can be pulled from the author's > location? Then, after it works, do I post the ebuild to bugs.gentoo.org? > Thanks, > > /jgt
Post the working ebuild, and the patch file, to bugs.gentoo.org. If it's accepted, a Gentoo developer will (in all liklihood) add the patch file into the 'files' directory for the package. Stu -- Stuart Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org/ Beta packages for download http://dev.gentoo.org/~stuart/packages/ Come and meet me in March 2004 http://www.phparch.com/cruise/ GnuGP key id# F9AFC57C available from http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint = 31FB 50D4 1F88 E227 F319 C549 0C2F 80BA F9AF C57C --
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