Perlbox custom ebuild need some help [Solved]

[GentooMik]

Hello all!!

I am wondering how do I go about this problem? Ok,
I see perlbox is not in the "portage" tree. I am not a great builder and tried to make a half decent ebuild but failed!!! I do not want to turn off sandbox for my own errors. It gives to the script and fails. Would gladly use the portage ebuild over a custom one but in this case no alternative. Could someone rewrite or fix my ebuild? here it is. (pardon me grumpy going to bed late).

[iTux]

Hi,

Read the perlbox build instructions.

Usually, there is a way to specify the temporary installation directory.
With most software that uses make it is done like this:
make install DESTDIR=${D}
Checking how the Debian people or other does it, helps.

In your case read the doc and either provide some option or modify the build script.

All files from the packaged should be installed in ${D}. At the merge step, files will be merged to /.


iTux

[GentooMik]

hi again!

Thanks for some info on this would you have some more? Building without portage this program is easy. But I do not wish to bypass portage and install it dirty. (uncleanable).

[iTux]

Hi,

The package to download seem to be a pre-packaged self-installing package. There does not seem to be any source code (i.e. source used to create the self-installing package) available for download on the website.

iTux

[iTux]

The .ss files is simply a tar archive of the installation files and the .install files seem to be an installation script but does not seem to do any interesting thing for us.

What about something like this:

[GentooMik]

Hey Itux!

Just had the ability to check the forums,


It worked without a flaw I have printed the ebuild out and studying the dir magic. I am going contact the Author and tell him if he wants to upload the "ebuild". All of us gentoo "users" who want the software could easily add it to their custom portage dir!

P.S: It has no source you say but think you really mean it has no "code" like "C" files. It seems a script and likely is a gpl one.

edit:

It is GPL seems original.

[License] OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Cheers,
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[iTux]

[PyroBor]

when i wanted to install perlbox i needed to change ebuild a bit...

[mcummings]

in portage as of this afternoon

[GentooMik]

Thank You for addition of the perlbox software.