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Hi! |
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I have some idea on extending portage building system (ebuild?). |
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Sometimes I'm (for example) want to apply custom patch to some package. |
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This patch can do something unusual, that can not be accepted by |
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maintainers and I know this. But I like features in my patch and want it |
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to apply automatically when updating the package. Not to do it like this: |
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$ ebuild /usr/portage/pkg-categoty/some-package/some-package-1.0 unpack |
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$ cd /var/tmp/portage/pkg-categoty/some-package/work/... |
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$ patch -p1 < ~/my-patch-for-some-package |
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$ cd |
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$ ebuild /usr/portage/pkg-categoty/some-package/some-package-1.0 merge |
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It is lot of manual work. The idea is having an file, for example |
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/etc/portage/package.patch with contents like this: |
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=pkg-category/some-package-1* /path/to/my-patch-for-some-package |
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Of course, patches could fail in newer versions. But when I'll use that |
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feature - I'll understand why it can be and it'll be more convenient to |
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maintain it. |
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