Nick Rout <nick <at> rout.co.nz> writes: > > Bugzilla 92501 was the original request.
> > By the look of the CVS tree this ebuild has NEVER been in portage. How > it got on your system can only be explained by you. Where/how do you look at the portage tree in the full complement of packages that are available or what's not in the portage tree? Does one just look in /usr/portage/distfiles or some other special directory, or is there a place where one can peruse the entire tree regardless of what they have install on a gentoo system? > If you think it is in portage on some of your systems you can verify by > looking in the directory I only said this because 'emerge -s jffnms' has previously shown the package (in red) as masked. Plus this page was created: http://dev.gentoo.org/~angusyoung/docs/jffnms/docs/jffnms.html > ls /usr/portage/net-analyzer/jffnms/ No, this dir does not exist. > If you want to build it why don't you download the ebuild from the > bugzilla site and put it in your overlay? The overlay process is well > documented, I am not going to burden this list with yet another > explanation. I guess I have no other choice. > > I wonder why it wass abandoned before it was ever finished? > It doesn't look abandoned to me, the last post was on 19 October 2005, > when a new version of the ebuild was posted. OK, I confused see the package with 'emerge -s jffnms' with it being masked but in the official tree of packages.... > Lots of new evuilds get posted to bugzilla, not as many ever come out > the other end. > Once you have tested it don't forget to go back to the bug and report > back on your experience. OK James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
