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On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 05:43:18PM +0000, Ferris McCormick wrote: |
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> This is random musing based based on perhaps my own problems. |
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> I need a local color.file to see well what I have going on, and |
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> current xorg ignores that. Thus, at every build, there is in |
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> oscolor.c a "constant" I must change from 1 to 0. |
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While I don't have any need for your specific change, I do have the same |
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problem with some other unrelated patches for unrelated packages. Instead |
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of manually changing the code for every version bump, you can set up your |
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bashrc to define a post_src_unpack function, which checks if |
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${CATEGORY}/${PN} == x11-base/xorg-server, and if so, applies the patch. |
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solar's old bashrc which does this is still found at |
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<http://dev.gentoo.org/~solar/bashrc>, and I've put up the function as |
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I'm using it at <http://dev.gentoo.org/~truedfx/bashrc>. |
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