On 3/11/2010 12:26 PM, Daniel Bartholomew wrote: > On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:41:04 -0500, Brian Evans > <grkni...@scent-team.com> wrote: > > Brian> I have posted the build scripts for Gentoo onto GitHub. > Brian> > Brian> They can be found here: http://github.com/grknight/mariadb-gentoo > Brian> > Brian> Gentoo downstream uses git over bzr so I thought it was the best > Brian> choice. > Brian> > Brian> Feel free to pull from it. > > Thanks! > > I've added a Gentoo sub-page to our Building MariaDB page with a link > to your build scripts. > > http://askmonty.org/wiki/index.php/Building_MariaDB:Gentoo > > Right now the only thing on the page is the link and I'd like to add > a brief how-to to the page, but I don't know anything about Gentoo. > > Do you think you could write a brief how-to on using your scripts to > build MariaDB on Gentoo which I could then post to the page (giving you > credit, of course)? Our wiki content is dual-licensed GNU-FDL/CC > BY-SA, just like Wikipedia. >
emerge is the Gentoo package manager. Brief HowTo: 1. Grab the ebuilds and related files into a directory: "git clone http://github.com/grknight/mariadb-gentoo.git"; 2. Add the directory to your PORTDIR_OVERLAY in /etc/make.conf. e.g. PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/mariadb-gentoo" 3. Copy the files from the distfiles directory in the repository to /usr/portage/distfiles. (This is for mariadb patches that differ from Gentoo main.) 4. Add dev-db/mariadb to your /etc/portage/package.keywords and add any optional features (USE flags) to your /etc/portage/package.use 5. emerge mariadb _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss Post to : maria-discuss@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
