On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Gavin Pryke <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > >
That's fair enough. Thanks for taking the time to have a look. :) Alex. -- www.openoctave.org [email protected] [email protected]
