Talk:Basic guide to write Gentoo Ebuilds

Issue with the steps
Question: There is a problem in that following the cited steps fails as shown below. — Donahue 20:27, 16 January 2014‎ (UTC)

Answer: You need to put SLOT="0" inside the ebuild. — Tom Wijsman 21:07, 16 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi all, please remember to sign your contributions to discussion pages. Kind regards, --Maffblaster (talk) 04:19, 25 December 2016 (UTC)


 * I think there are two issues here; even if you include 'SLOT="0"' in your ebuild, you still get the "!!! Repository 'x-portage'" error. See this forum thread and this exchange. Separately, the hello-world instructions should probably specify what name to save your ebuild file under; currently only the path is explicitly specified. Kergu (talk) 23:06, 3 June 2019 (UTC)


 * My mistake, have amended instructions accordingly. Proofreading welcome; I just wrote what worked for me. Kergu (talk) 23:19, 3 June 2019 (UTC)


 * One more problem; there appears to be no file at https://dev.gentoo.org/~tomwij/files/wiki/hello-world-1.0.tar.gz. The "ebuild hello-world-1.0.ebuild manifest clean merge" command hangs at "PASV ... ". Kergu (talk) 00:07, 4 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Just removed those "Hello World" stuff as it was a confusing mixture of creating source code and writing ebuild. Creating source code (programming) might go to its own dedicated article.--Charles17 (talk) 07:51, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

Error 404
The following link doesn't work anymore: https://dev.gentoo.org/~tomwij/files/wiki/hello-world-1.0.tar.gz Fturco (talk) 16:35, 20 August 2018 (UTC)


 * I reviewed the article, and the errant link has been expunged. --Davidbryant (talk) 16:16, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Add examples from portage tree
I think a nice addition to this page would be to list real ebuilds from the portage tree that show good ebuild practices. Many real ebuilds look complicated showing examples for libraries and executibles for different languages would be helpful. Garbanzo (talk) 04:47, 4 June 2019 (UTC)