Wrote an ebuild. What's next?

[-leliel-]

Hi,

I wrote an ebuild for 'rename' (http://rename.berlios.de). I think it's a great tool for mass renaming and so on.

Is there a way to move it into portage or do I have to add this to my private homepage?

thanks

[BillyD]

Submit it to bugzilla for it to be added into portage. There is a guide for submitting ebuilds here.

You can have a directory on your machine for custom ebuilds that are not in portage by editing your make.conf file - specify the directory you want to keep them in with the PORTAGE_OVERLAY variable. This will allow you to maintain your custom ebuilds without them being overwritten everytime you rsync. Read this for the full rundown.
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[-leliel-]

Thanks a lot.