Created attachment 865141 [details] an ebuild, using git-r3 for lack of unpack wisdom at this juncture DESCRIPTION="Portage utility script: aria2c fetch client for Gentoo" I have been running this as a make.conf hack for maybe a year and got a spur to learn the ebuild process, and try to make it easy for newbs. I failed at most of those goals but it does work to install a script from a git-repo. I hear a lot of opinions on how perfect gentoo portage transfers already are, and I wanted to contribute yet more perfection still to the pool of opinions. Ebuild attached. git repo in ebuild
Comment on attachment 865141 [details] an ebuild, using git-r3 for lack of unpack wisdom at this juncture my first attempt at an ebuild would integrate this into /etc/make.conf but i noticed that if that was a symlink up the hierarchy that sed -i would derail that symlink; so now the script has "install" and "remove" shown in the the help which will perform the actions by appending, preserving all prior make.conf entries in either case
(In reply to jnorthrup from comment #1) > Comment on attachment 865141 [details] > an ebuild, using git-r3 for lack of unpack wisdom at this juncture > > my first attempt at an ebuild would integrate this into /etc/make.conf but i > noticed that if that was a symlink up the hierarchy that sed -i would derail > that symlink; so now the script has "install" and "remove" shown in the the > help which will perform the actions by appending, preserving all prior > make.conf entries in either case to be more clear, i removed ebuild-related bad outcomes, putting the make.conf assistance into the script itself for the root user to perform willfully
i will gladly be a maintainer if i could get a once-over from a seasoned hand, and be the torch bearer
