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On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 12:42, Chris Wolfe wrote: |
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> Any way to get emerge to add local patches without having to modify the |
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> ebuild in question? |
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> Am currently putting together a server on which a fair number of the |
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> packages have needed tweaking at the source level to get required |
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> functionality. At the moment I am using ebuild unpack, then patching and |
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> running compile install and qmerge. If there is no easy solution at the |
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> moment I will probably just tweak emerge to add a directory to look in for |
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> local patches. |
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Wouldn't it just be *much* quicker to add a simple |
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epatch ${FILESDIR}/patchname |
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line to the ebuild and keep a local copy in your overlay? I would think |
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trying to modify emerge itself seems a bit of a wasted effort |
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considering how easy it is to keep your own overlay. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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Games Team |
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