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[Daniel Bartholomew <dbart@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:58:49 -0500, Brian Evans
<grknight@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Brian> emerge is the Gentoo package manager.
Brian> 
Brian> Brief HowTo:
Brian> 
Brian> 1. Grab the ebuilds and related files into a directory: "git
Brian> clone http://github.com/grknight/mariadb-gentoo.git";
Brian> 2. Add the directory to your PORTDIR_OVERLAY in /etc/make.conf.
Brian> e.g. PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/mariadb-gentoo"
Brian> 3. Copy the files from the distfiles directory in the repository
Brian> to /usr/portage/distfiles.  (This is for mariadb patches that
Brian> differ from Gentoo main.)
Brian> 4. Add dev-db/mariadb to your /etc/portage/package.keywords and
Brian> add any optional features (USE flags) to
Brian> your /etc/portage/package.use 5. emerge mariadb

I've added the how-to to the page.

http://askmonty.org/wiki/index.php/Building_MariaDB:Gentoo

Thanks!

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Daniel Bartholomew
Monty Program - http://askmonty.org