reporting bugs on gentoo

reporting bugs on gentoo

[William Hubbs]

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On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 11:59:58PM -0500, Nick Gawronski wrote:
> Hi, I just tried using the latest gentoo 2.6.21 kernel using emerge and 
> genkernel and found out that my dectalk express does not work with this 
> kernel.  I am stuck with using the kernel and modules from the live CD 
> 2007.0 that is using 2.6.19.  Is there any plans to fix this issue?  Also, 
> What is the easiest and accessible way to report a bug in gentoo packages or 
> compilation errors that stop a package from compiling when using emerge? 

Hi Nick,

to report bugs on gentoo, open an account on http://bugs.gentoo.org.

Once that is done, we have a package called pybugz which is a python
script that is a command line interface to bugzilla.

It is not in the stable tree as of yet, so to get it, you have to do the
following:

echo www-client/pybugz >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
emerge pybugz

There is not a man page for it as of yet, so once it is installed, you
can use the --help option to find out the correct usage.

The command it gives you is bugz (spelled with z not s), so you can
type:

bugz --help

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

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William Hubbs
gentoo accessibility team lead
williamh@gentoo.org
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