Casey Allen Shobe wrote: >I'm planning to edit the vpopmail ebuild Real Soon Now to add the >mysteriously missing postgres USE flag and thus end up with a >package compiled with the support we need. > >Instead of wasting my time re-adding this every time a new version >of vpopmail comes along, I'd much rather use this as an opportunity >to get into Gentoo development and add this to the central ebuild >repository so that all future versions inherit it. > >What do I need to do to get started on this? Do I simply mail a >patch to this list, or ask somebody for a CVS account and commit >changes directly? > > > You should file a bug in http://bugs.gentoo.org.
>I'm also a bit confused about the portdir_overlay thing - If there >exists a -r15, do I then add a -r16 to make emerge realize an >update is available. What happens then when an -r16 hits the >regular portage tree? > > if r15 exists in portdir_overlay, it will be preferred over the official r15 version.
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