HOWTO: Build a svn-based ebuild.

steveL · Last edited by steveL on Tue Jun 24, 2014 12:47 am; edited 7 times in total

Hi,

I'm posting this here in case someone else has a use for it, and also to get feedback and maybe give some hints to anyone else starting out on writing ebuilds.

These are for Synfig, "an industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software package." The website is at http://www.synfig.com/ and the actual ebuilds can be downloaded from bugzilla (there are two other bugs for supporting packages.)

Make a portage overlay directory (eg /usr/local/portage) if you don't already have one.

Underneath that you will need 2 directories, dev-cpp and media-gfx.
In dev-cpp you will need another directory, ETL.
In media-gfx you will need another 2 directories, synfig and synfig-studio.

The ebuilds should be placed in the appropriate directories.

You will wish to rename the ebuilds to use the latest checkout number, as we'll be downloading the files from subversion; if you do this, you'll also need to change all the filenames in the code below (so instead of ETL-231 use ETL-237 or whatever.) In the following instructions, stuff in code blocks needs to be typed in at the command-line. Other steps can be done from a GUI. NB: don't change any of the `svn co http...' lines (unless you have better info;), as they refer to the project names as set by the developer.
If you don't have subversion already you'll first need to do:

steveL · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 5:39 am Post subject:

Just an update on the process of getting involved with gentoo ebuild maintenance.

So far I've learnt:

post to bugzilla
expect bad manners if it's a whinge
once you've submitted a build, watch for the pkg to go to maintainer-wanted
bump the bugs with new versions as they come out
live svn and cvs builds don't go very far.
Once it's on maintainer-wanted find out which herd would be responsible for it and mail them asking if someone can proxy maintain for you.
Get it into sunrise -- join #gentoo-sunrise
if you need help ask on irc.freenode.net#gentoo-dev-help

Thanks to antarus and astinus for the help so far.

edit: added IRC channel
edit: removed IRC log

steveL · Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 11:01 am Post subject:

Check out the thread on becoming a dev especially the bash links and the stuff about mailing lists (you don't want to be embarrassed like I was ;) And this one has info on using epatches. Note that you apply the patches in the ebuild, and they become part of your file list. -p1 means strip one directory from path names.

steveL · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:00 am Post subject:

Just a quick note on making docs; in these ebuilds (well ETL and synfig, not synfig-studio) programming documentation is made using doxygen. So I added a doc USE flag (in IUSE) and made the ebuilds build the docs conditionally on that use flag. The interesting (for a geek ;) part is how you get those files across to the main system- you have to use dohtml not dodoc or otherwise the files will be compressed which obviously makes it tricky to view them in a browser. This also means you need to use insinto beforehand to set the correct directory.

aCOSwt · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 9:00 am Post subject:

Could my post be reported for necromancy ?

Well, I mean is this howto building from an upstream subversion repository still valid, still to be preferred to an ebuild based on the subversion eclass ?
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DaggyStyle · Watchman Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5931

instead of using

aCOSwt · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 10:00 am Post subject:

steveL · Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 5:24 am Post subject:

Thanks DaggyStyle, update the original post to reflect that.

Can't believe anyone still finds this useful heh.
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steveL · Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2014 7:05 pm Post subject:

If you are making subversion-based ebuilds, you may need to migrate a checked-out svn repo (including git-svn.)