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Mario Charest
09/28/2007 1:19 PM
post1680
how can I contribute   

I have been building some of the package, some with success, some without.

Some I can fix but not sure how to do it properly (#ifdef ?) any document on that.  

Anyone coordinating the effort so that people don't work on the same package?
Colin Burgess(deleted)
09/28/2007 1:30 PM
post1681
Re: how can I contribute   
Sounds like a good job for a wiki page...

Mario Charest wrote:
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> I have been building some of the package, some with success, some 
> without.
>
> Some I can fix but not sure how to do it properly (#ifdef ?) any 
> document on that. 
>
> Anyone coordinating the effort so that people don't work on the same 
> package?
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> General
> http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1680
>

-- 
cburgess@qnx.com
Mario Charest
09/28/2007 1:45 PM
post1683
Re: how can I contribute   
> Sounds like a good job for a wiki page...

Are you talking to me ?  Can non qnx people build wiki pages here?
Colin Burgess(deleted)
09/28/2007 1:48 PM
post1684
Re: how can I contribute   
I was my understanding... maybe it's a setting of the project?

Mario Charest wrote:
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> > Sounds like a good job for a wiki page...
>
> Are you talking to me ?  Can non qnx people build wiki pages here?
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> _______________________________________________
> General
> http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1683
>

-- 
cburgess@qnx.com
Frederic Plante
09/28/2007 4:29 PM
post1698
RE: how can I contribute   
Project members that want to update wiki content have to be committers. Each
project has its own rules for declaring committers, so it up to Sean and
Xiaodan to decide how they want to proceed.

	- Fred


-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Burgess [mailto:cburgess@qnx.com] 
Sent: September 28, 2007 1:48 PM
To: general-pkgsrc
Subject: Re: how can I contribute

I was my understanding... maybe it's a setting of the project?

Mario Charest wrote:
>
> > Sounds like a good job for a wiki page...
>
> Are you talking to me ?  Can non qnx people build wiki pages here?
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> General
> http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1683
>

-- 
cburgess@qnx.com



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http://community.qnx.com/sf/go/post1684
Rick Duff(deleted)
09/28/2007 3:20 PM
post1690
Re: how can I contribute   
> > Sounds like a good job for a wiki page...
> 
> Are you talking to me ?  Can non qnx people build wiki pages here?

This non QSS person just created one. :-P But I might have different privs since I can also commit to the repository for
 this project.  

Basically if you are a "contributor", you should be able to both commit to the repo and edit wiki pages.  I suspect all 
that need to happen is you need to be made a contributor.

Rick..
Xiaodan Tang
09/28/2007 1:44 PM
post1682
Re: how can I contribute   
Indeed it should be a wiki page to talk to this.

> I have been building some of the package, some with success, some without.
> 
> Some I can fix but not sure how to do it properly (#ifdef ?) any document on 
> that.  

You basically need to create patches (and some time have to modify top Makefile)

I use the netbsd pkgsrc doc at (http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/),
11.3.4. has some patching guide lines.

Note, we intended to submit the patches back to NetBSD, and they are building on 13 different platforms, do make sure 
your patch won't break others :)

I guess for now, you can attach your patches, and we will take a look.

> Anyone coordinating the effort so that people don't work on the same package?

Hm, good questions. For lack of other ways, how about using the other forum "pkginfo" to do this. I will try to keep an 
"already builted packages" list there, and you can announce whatever you want to work on.
Peter Kalbus
01/17/2008 7:16 AM
post4380
Re: how can I contribute   
when it's intenden to submit things to NetBSD, how can it be checked?

currently i'm working on getting rpm5 build oa part of the pkgsrc distribution. work is initially finished and an alpha 
drop of needed files and patches will be available soon

how can i put back the content to the Foundry27?
and how can i get a check against a reasonalbe set of NetBSD supported configurations?

-piet
Sean Boudreau(deleted)
01/17/2008 9:50 AM
post4393
Re: how can I contribute   
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 07:16:13AM -0500, Peter Kalbus wrote:
> when it's intenden to submit things to NetBSD, how can it be checked?
> 
> currently i'm working on getting rpm5 build oa part of the pkgsrc distribution. work is initially finished and an 
alpha drop of needed files and patches will be available soon
> 
> how can i put back the content to the Foundry27?
> and how can i get a check against a reasonalbe set of NetBSD supported configurations?

I intend to hopefully start some merges back to NetBSD RSN.
Some of the issue is that a lot of the fixes found so far
have been to the QNX kit proper and are therefore not
applicable to maintainers of either pkgsrc proper or
individual packages.  I hope that by 6.4 of QNX we should be
synced up with NetBSD so that a lot more works out of the
box.

In the meantime you can post patches here.  If they should
also be sent back upstream to the rpm maintainers (for
example) it would be appreciated if you sent them that way
as well so that their next release has better QNX support...

-seanb
Peter Kalbus
01/17/2008 4:10 PM
post4413
Re: how can I contribute   
ok, seems to be straigth forward

thanks for the hint, sending the patches to the originators

the first change has already taken place

-piet

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