Project:AMD64/Bug Filing Guide

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Provides information on how to file a bug related to the Gentoo/AMD64 platform.

How to file keyword-bugs for Gentoo/AMD64

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.
  • Click on Report A Bug near the top of the page.
  • Choose Gentoo Linux 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.

ALL k3b

  • 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 amd64.
      • The Summary column should say something like working on amd64.
    • 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 amd64 for the Hardware Platform.
    • In the Summary textbox, enter your summary in the form: ${category}/${application}-${version} works on amd64.

app-cdr/k3b-0.11.6 works on amd64

  • 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}.

Please add "~amd64" to the KEYWORDS for app-cdr/k3b-0.11.6

  • Continue giving us info
    • Paste the output from emerge --info into the Description 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 Submit Bug Report when ready to file the report.

Thank you very much!

This page is based on a document formerly found on our main website gentoo.org.
The following people contributed to the original document: Tom Martin (maintainer), Simon Stelling (maintainer) updated on February 1, 2006
They are listed here because wiki history does not allow for any external attribution. If you edit the wiki article, please do not add yourself here; your contributions are recorded on each article's associated history page.

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