Project:AMD64/Bug Filing Guide

Provides information on howto file a bug related to the Gentoo/AMD64 Platform.

First we want to thank you for helping out with the Gentoo/AMD64 project. Your diligent efforts in testing applications is greatly appreciated. In the following we want to explain the steps to submitting a bug report if you want to let us know that a masked application works on your Gentoo/AMD64 installation.

Register first!
If you haven't registered for an ID on bugs.gentoo.org, please do that first.

Steps for submission
Perform the following steps to submit a bug:


 * Browse to bugs.gentoo.org.
 * near the top of the page.
 * Choose from the product list.
 * Log in using your bugs.gentoo.org account.
 * Search for your bug
 * Enter ALL and the name of the ebuild into the search textbox. Be careful, ALL is case sensitive.


 * Continue searching for your bug
 * Click the Search button.
 * Check if anyone has already submitted a bug report on the masked application that works for you.
 * You should see two thing.
 * The Plt column should say.
 * The Summary column should say something like working on.
 * If you don't say anything applicable in the search subframe, move on to the next step. Otherwise, we already know about the application and you don't need to (and shouldn't) submit a new bug report.


 * Give us your information
 * Select Ebuilds for the Component.
 * Select for the Hardware Platform.
 * In the Summary textbox, enter your summary in the form: ${category}/${application}-${version} works on.


 * Continue giving us info
 * In the Description textarea, enter a brief description in the from: Please add "~amd64" to the KEYWORDS for ${category}/${application}-${version}.


 * Continue giving us info
 * Paste the output from emerge --info into the text area. This step is very helpful and gives us the environmental conditions (e.g USE flags) you used.
 * Select Enhancement from the Severity drop-down list-box. Please don't select anything other here. The devs can (and will) change the severity of your bug report in case of necessity.
 * Doublecheck your work to make sure the correct data has been entered.
 * Click when ready to file the report.

Thank you very much!