Re: ebuild for Gentoo

I also run gentoo and ASK (althought I have not updated it in a while).

ebuilds are pretty easy to create, but I am not sure how to have the ASK 
installed.  Gentoo allows for pretty much any mailer, so other then just 
downloading the basic ASK and putting it in the filesystem 
(/usr/local/ask ???) what would you do next?

Are there any other ASK installers?

-Aaron

Gour wrote:

>Marco Paganini ([email protected]) wrote:
>
>Hi!
>
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>>I'm totally ignorant when it comes to Gentoo. What's an ebuild? I
>>suppose it's gentoo's native packaging system?
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>This is from the official doc:
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><quote>
>ebuild scripts are the basis for the entire portage system. They contain all
>the information required to download, unpack, compile and install a set of
>sources, as well as how to perform any optional pre/post install/removal or
>configuration functions. While most of Portage is written in Python, the ebuild
>scripts themselves are written in bash, since using bash allows us to call
>commands as we would from the command-line. One of the important design
>principles behind ebuild scripts is to have the commands therein be analogs of
>those one would type on the command-line if installing the package manually.
>For this purpose, having bash syntax is a good thing.  
></quote>
>
>So, I'm pretty new to Gentoo and ebuilds although I put together one simple
>ebuild for configure; make; make install program.
>
>When I have time I'd certainly try to write "ask" ebuild, although I cannot
>gurantee it will be good enough for official submitting at Gentoo's bugzilla.
>
>Sincerely,
>Gour
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>

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