Do you search Bugzilla for ebuilds? (ends in 6m)

node_one · Apprentice Joined: 07 Apr 2008 Posts: 165

This poll was inspired by this post by Dagger.

avieth · Veteran Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 1945 Location: Canada

I search google, which often leads me to bugzilla.

arnvidr · l33t Joined: 19 Aug 2004 Posts: 629 Location: Oslo, Norway

Ditto
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bastibasti · Guru Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 586

since I found some ebuilds on bugzilla, i have made my own overlay "custom" that has all these that I needed (i have also made my own wine-1.1.2 which was ever so easy)

I would prefer having a "bugzilla-"overlay

node_one · Apprentice Joined: 07 Apr 2008 Posts: 165

NotQuiteSane · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:54 pm Post subject:

just did.

it's not there

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swimmer · Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 3:02 pm Post subject:

I search bugzilla for *everything* thus also for new ebuilds ;-)

tabanus · l33t Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 638 Location: UK

Bugzilla search sucks almost as much as FGO search. I voted no
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NotQuiteSane · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 2:15 am Post subject:

SiberianSniper · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 2:43 am Post subject:

I too voted no. Google works very well for searching sites such as fgo and bugzilla.... and as per the original context, it's nice to have things in portage even if they're not ready - just hardmask the ebuilds until they're tested and verified... I guarantee the test base will increase due to people like me who would rather add something to packages.unmask than to set up a local overlay. Granted, both are easy, but if it's in portage then I don't have to worry about downloading the newer versions manually.

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node_one · Apprentice Joined: 07 Apr 2008 Posts: 165

Gentoo's Bugzilla will be upgraded to version 3 at some point. I do not know if that will make a difference.

The purpose of the question was to find out whether you look for ebuilds in Bugzilla, not how, but nevertheless it is interesting that so many people find the build-in search inadequate.

mikegpitt · Advocate Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 3224

I check bugzilla for ebuilds if there isn't an ebuild in portage for a package I want to install, or if I need a version bump that hasn't made its way into the tree.

jordanwb · Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:56 pm Post subject:

Never heard of either of those wordss o i say no.

aidanjt · Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 7:01 pm Post subject:

Yes, but bugzilla is so hopelessly crap at search indexing that half the time, it doesn't even turn out what you're looking for.
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energyman76b · Advocate Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 2048 Location: Germany

regularly. Especially with drivers.

Bugzilla search sucks. And the 'zarro bugs found' message when I KNOW that there is at least one bug about a certain subject gives me homocidal thoughts. But before I write an ebuild and fail, I search there. Less time wasted.
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yngwin · Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 5:36 pm Post subject:

energyman76b · Advocate Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 2048 Location: Germany

I don't care about overlays. I only use one of them - kdesvn-portage. And the local one with ebuilds from bugzilla or copy-renamed and slightly edited ones.
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