-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 15 January 2004 03:02, Vanh Phom wrote: > Hi All, > > The normal life style of gentooer is to wait for the package ebuild to > show up and life is good. But once in while, you want a package that > hasn't make it into ebuild yet what to do? If you download the package > and install it by hand will it mess up your portage? >
You can install it by hand, but with just a little bit of more effort you can make an ebuild for it. Here's a guide for making ebuilds: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-howto.xml (Also looking at other ebuilds in the portage is really helpful) Also be sure to submit it to bugzilla so it might be in official portage some day: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ebuild-submit.xml - -- - -Ville Leskinen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFABl3igoR0Vryv7LYRArTeAKDpuU6PRbpaKbi38FcmfwFLGH+mgACfRu/c pKYc52Prt+yBuQsZD/rhhZc= =jbYm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
