Yet another open source blog ;-) » ebuild

An easy way to assist us

Markos — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:32:08 +0000

Well, today I am gonna focus on two different types of packages. Those who never had a maintainer and those abandoned by their initial maintainers.

Looking through bugzilla, you might notice that some of the bus are assigned to maintainer-wanted herd. This means that those packages are seeking for a gentoo developer or a gentoo-user ( acting as proxy-maintainer ) to take care of them and push them on tree or Sunrise. So if you file a bug for a new ebuild, we will probably assign it to that herd and wait until somebody picks it. Personally, I go through that list once a while and pick up interesting packages but I don’t know if the rest of the devs are in the same path. If you feel like a package is really cool and we should really have it on tree, feel free to write an ebuild for it and then commit it on Sunrise or poke me and I will commit it on tree (after we review it) and I will add you as proxy-maintainer

The maintainer-needed packages are orphan packages on tree. This is because their initial developer got bored taking care of them or because this developer has been retired. Hence nobody is taking care of them, nobody bumps them, nobody fixes the various bugs which pop up from time to time. Again, I go through that list and either remove them on behalf of treecleaner project or fix them on behalf of QA project. So the question is:

Can you help? If you file a bug on a maintainer-needed package, most likely nobody will fix it. But if you attach a patch that actually fixes the problem, then a guy from treecleaners/QA project will probably pop up and commit your patch. Congruts, you saved a package from being removed. Simple?

In order to help you, I will give you the two URLs from gentoo bugzilla I use to track maintainer-needed and -wanted bugs

* maintainer-needed

* maintainer-wanted

Happy bug fixing

zen-sources again on Gentoo

Markos — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:50:37 +0000

Having been a crazy ‘zen-sources’ user, I really miss those kernel patches nowadays. So I took up the bug 288512 and zen-sources are again available for all Gentoo users[1]
I haven’t committed them yet on portage tree because I want to ensure that they are safe enough for everyday usage. So until then, you can get them via a new overlay hosted on github

git clone git://github.com/hwoarang/zen-sources.git

or via layman

layman -a zen-sources

Special thanks to Brandon Berhent for providing the initial Gentoo ebuilds, and for developing the zen-sources :)

Thanks Brandon :)

Have fun with your brand new kernel sources[2]

[1] http://github.com/hwoarang/zen-sources

[2] http://www.zen-kernel.org

Pysdm Ebuild

Markos — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:42:18 +0000

I was about to start a new project about a gui interface for fstab. I did a google search and i found

Pysdm
Its a quite interesting program written on python with PyGTK .
There wasnt a Gentoo ebuild so I wrote one for my gentoo machine

Ebuild can be found:

pysdm ebuild

pysdm gentoo buzgilla

Argouml-0.24 Ebuild

Markos — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:10:17 +0000

I was developing a project on Argouml on Arch Linux. The version of argouml was 0.24. I tried to continue the development on Gentoo but I couldnt because the argouml version was 0.19. I must say that 0.24 version was released on February 2007 !!!! . Anyway I did the ebuild for Argouml-0.24 and I am giving it to you

I also commited it on Gentoo Bugzilla

Argouml-0.24