Support for Gentoo

[lordofserenity]

I don't know if this is a lot of work or not, but would it be possible for Howdy to be ported to Gentoo? If that is too much work, could you add documentation so that I could compile from source?

[boltgolt]

While it should definitely be possible, it probably won't be easy.

There are no compilation steps because Howdy is written in python. A good start would be to check all dependencies are available and functional on Gentoo. The pam-python package in particular isn't very well supported. The Debian installation script is also quite well documented and should point you in the right direction.

[firelizzard18]

I created an ebuild for pam-python, and started work on one for howdy. For pam-python, I used gentoo's distutils-r1.class instead of the makefile. I successfully built an egg, but I may be missing a config file or something.

https://github.com/firelizzard18/howdy/tree/gentoo-ebuild

[Shifulor]

Hi there, you are amazing to tackle that task, may I ask how far you are? Or how I can mybe help? I am moving to gentoo soon and howdy is something i would love to have :)

[firelizzard18]

I got hung up on figuring out how to write Gentoo ebuilds. The build scripts for Arch Linux are very useful, since Arch and Gentoo are almost cousins, but there's still a fair bit of figuring out to do. Someone experienced with Gentoo ebuilds could probably do this easily - it's not that complicated, especially howdy/PKGBUILD. But I've never written an ebuild outside of this, and it's not something I want to spend time on at the moment.

[Shifulor]

I fully understand that. If you can put it into a tarbell, i might be able to make it an ebuild. Not experienced but documentation looks good, but ebuilds require .tar.gz

[xz-dev]

If you need, there is already.