

Contribute
There are several ways to contribute to the Sabayon project.
Testing, go here if you want to install sabayon and try it out.
Developing, get the code and try to fix errors and send patches to the maintainers.
Helping out on the mailing list and IRC for people having problems, letting them know where to go and what to do.
Contact
You can contact developers sending a mail to the Sabayon mailing list. You do not need to be subscribed.
We are also often available to chat on IRC.
Server: irc.gnome.org
Channel: #sabayon
Getting From CVS
To get the very latest copy of Sabayon you'll need to pull it from CVS. Here's how you'll do it.
export CVSROOT=':pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome' cvs login [press enter for blank password] cvs -z3 co sabayon cd sabayon
Getting From Package
Download the latest source package from the Sabayon package directory: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/sabayon/. Then untar the files like this:
tar -zxvf sabayon-0.1.0.tar.gz cd sabayon-0.1.0
Building From Source
Assuming you've changed into the Sabayon source directory from either a package or CVS you now want to start the build.
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local make make install (sudo make install may work for you)
Environment
Check the README file, to test sabayon you need a number of packages to be up to date. This is checked by the RPM upon installation. You also need a sabayon user defined like:
sabayon:x:50140:99:Sabayon user:/var/sabayon:/sbin/nologin
The RPM post install scripts uses the following command to create this specific user:
/usr/sbin/useradd -c "Sabayon user" -d /var/sabayon -g nobody -s /sbin/nologin sabayonYou may need to do this by hand or in you package to have a working installation of sabayon
Testing
Now that you have Sabayon installed try it by launching sabayon as root and create new profiles and edit them. Don't forget to save the session before quitting to have the profile updated. Check the step by step example available from Seth Nickell blog about sabayon 0.12.
Reporting Bugs
When reporting bugs about Sabayon it is most helpful to explain the sequence of events you did to generate the bug. If we can reproduce the bug it is of course easier to fix.
Report bugs for sabayon to GNOME Bugzilla under the Sabayon product.
Getting More Help
The GNOME web site has lots of materials for helping you build packages from source, see the developer site for more information about CVS and autogen and building. If you have any other questions feel free to direct them to IRC or the mailing list.