[darcs-users] Re: cgi script & Gentoo ebuild

[Gour]

Peter Simons (simons at cryp.to) wrote:

> The problem is that the darcs.cgi executable is of little
> value to you, unless you have a web server. Since you've
> most probably installed the web server via Gentoo, Gentoo
> should also know how to install the CGI into your web server
> so that it works out-of-the-box, mostly. Since nobody added
> the necessary functionality to the ebuild yet, the CGI is
> rather not installed at all.

Well, there is use of darcs.cgi if when running web server only on localhost :-)

> 
> Here is a work around that _should_ work for now: Go to
> /usr/portage/dev-util/darcs and execute
> 
>     ebuild darcs-xxxx.ebuild install
> 
> Then go to /var/tmp/portage/darcs-xxx/work/darcs-xxx, where
> the original source code lies, and say "make installserver".
> Then go back to the ebuild and execute:
> 
>     ebuild darcs-xxxx.ebuild merge
> 
> This should install the CGI on your machine. Uh, somewhere.
> :-)

Thank you for instructions. I'm still new with Gentoo, but it looks I have to
dive in a little bit into ebuild command.

Sincerely,
Gour

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