On Thursday 23 March 2006 20:43, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > On 23/03/06, Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Using a remote overlays is rather simple, just do "emerge layman". > > Read the einfo and then "man layman". > > It works flawlessly, just tested this with one remote overlay. > > Beside that "man layman" explains pretty much of it's innerwork. > > PS:There's an article in "gentoo-wiki.com" with a list of overlays. > > HTH.Rumen > > What is the status of those overlays? I believe the php, webapps, and > java ones (at least) are official (in that they're run by gentoo devs) > and bugs are to be reported to bugs.g.o, no? But the wiki page > http://gentoo-wiki.com/Portage_Overlay_Listing says "NEVER report bugs > at bugs.gentoo.org for these ebuilds." So where should users report > bugs? And how are they to know that? Hi, From a very quick scan - yes there're some overlays made/supported by Gentoo devs and some others are hosted/maintained by users,so i think for the latter case you can't use Bugzilla in a sense that the ebuild is not in the tree. But looking from another angle (POV) if this is a new version ebuild or an ebuild for a new (not in the tree) package, why not report it's status/workings/bugs in Bugzilla, generally it'll be an usefull info. Like now when somebody files a Bug on a new version or makes and attaches initial ebuild for a new package. Of course all depends on the policy (if any is made) about this external (official & unofficial) overlays and Bugzilla. PS: you can yourself see/read there're big differences in opinion even between Gentoo devs conserning overlays. So a bug-report assigned to a dev who doesn't want to support overlays will probably get "WONTFIX" whatever. Rumen
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