Re: Gentoo ebuild

On Oct 18, 2006, at 5:02 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I'm trying to build a Gentoo ebuild for Wackamole, and running into  
> some
> minor trouble.
>
> First, Gentoo ebuilds, by default, download the source tarball for  
> each
> compile.  That doesn't work with the enter-your-email-address CGI.   
> It's
> a small tarball, so it's possible the gentoo developers will host  
> it on
> their own mirrors, but it would be great if you could provide a URL
> against which a 'wget' would work.
>
> Second, and more importantly, I just ran into the same error as  
> reported
> here:
>
> http://lists.backhand.org/pipermail/wackamole-users/2004-December/ 
> 000393.html
>
> that was almost two years ago!  My ebuild is currently downloading the
> most recent version (2.1.1), but it seems that doesn't compile.  I  
> will
> change that to do a CVS checkout, but before the ebuild gets
> incorporated into Gentoo proper, it should have a functional release
> tarball.  Any word on when that will happen?
>
> Thanks!

2.1.2 was okayed for release a long time back Sept 9 2004.  No one  
rolled it (that'd be me).  I rolled it and it is available now.  I  
mirror most of that stuff:

http://mirrors.omniti.com/wackamole/

// Theo Schlossnagle
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