On 12/9/23 10:51 AM, Luke A. Guest wrote: >>> Can we add the following patch to the toolchain.eclass? I want to stop >>> having to mess with this overlay. The diff can be generated by >>> grabbing the repo https://github.com/Lucretia/ada-overlay and running >>> ./scripts/diff_eclass.sh. >> >> It'd be useful to send the whole lot with `git send-email` as proper >> patches which could be `git am`'d. >> > > Ok, just looked at this. I don't have sendmail installed here. Due to > the way I've worked on this, the only way I know how to btw and which > was pointed to initially on the #gentoo-* channels. Which is to have a > remote (covered in the README from today) in which I can diff the eclass > with my version to make sure I only ever have ada changes and cherry > pick what I need into my eclass. > > If there is a way, I'll send it, but you'll need to guide me on what I > need to do to do it.
The git send-email tools don't require mail-mta/sendmail installed, but they do need git to be built with USE=perl. That being said, not everyone is familiar with how to actually use `git send-email`, it can be a bit tricky to set it up to connect with your email account via SMTP. In particular, if your provider doesn't like you to authenticate without OAuth. If you like, there's a way to prepare your patches via a guided web UI workflow: https://man.sr.ht/git.sr.ht/#sending-patches-upstream tl;dr push your repository to https://git.sr.ht and have it send out the commits you select to the email address you select. Hope that helps, -- Eli Schwartz
