On Wednesday 27 Oct 2010 06:50:40 alex stone wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Gavin Pryke <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 26 Oct 2010 12:54:30 alex stone wrote: > >> Can i respectfully request an updated ebuild for Ecasound, from 2.6.0, > >> to the current 2.7.2? > >> > >> Thanks. > >> > >> Alex. > > > > Hi Alex > > > > I'm not familiar with ecasound but looking at the output of eix I don't > > see it in the pro-audio tree, it seems to be in portage proper, maybe > > you could file a bug on bugs.gentoo.org and ask for it to be bumped > > there? I don't mean to sound funny or anything about this but if a > > package is in the portage tree already then in my humble opinion it > > makes sense for Gentoo developers to maintain it rather than duplicate > > the effort in the pro-audio overlay. > > > > Please see this list for all ecasound bugs, I notice a bump request for > > 2.7.1: http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=ALL+ecasound > > > > I looked briefly at the homepage of Nama but I have little experience > > packaging perl applications on Gentoo and the dependencies look tricky to > > get right. > > It looks as though Nama could be installed by g-cpan somehow or maybe a > > nama-9999 ebuild could possibly be made. > > > > Sorry I couldn't be of more help and thanks for your emails. > > > > Best regards > > Gavin > > Gavin, for your info, Nama can be installed from the git repo, using > normal configure, make, make install. portage has all the dependencies > already (Ecasound version not withstanding). Maybe it's easier than we > think. :) > > Alex.
Checking out the Nama git repo I see there is no autoconf configure script in the tree, it's a Makefile.PL. I will have a deeper look at some point but no promises on an ebuild just yet. :) Gav
