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Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: |
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> I'm trying to write an ebuild for "xawdecode", a TV program based on |
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> "xawtv". I've based on xawtv-3.7.2.ebuild, but I have a problem: a few |
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> files, some fonts to go in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc, are shared by |
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> this two program, so I can't emerge my application because of a sandbox |
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> write lock. How are we supposed to deal with this kind of |
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> incompatibility ? I've though about patching the Makefile to place the |
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> font somewhere else, but I don't feel it really satisfying. |
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You are missing a very important point. Your ebuild should not be writing |
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*anything* to the live filesystem. Everything goes in ${D} |
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(/var/tmp/portage/<pkg-name>/image/). Have you looked at other ebuilds? |
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In particular, you should look at some examples of dodir and doins. |
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Chad |