Re: [gentoo-dev] echo during src_install (numlockx ebuild)

[Chad M. Huneycutt]

Jacob Perkins wrote:
> I've got an ebuild for numlockx and I'd like to append a couple lines to
> the end of Xsetup0 in /etc/X11/xdm.  This seems like something that
> should be done in src_install to enable config file protection.  If I'm
> in src_install, though, I of course cannot edit files not in the
> package, so I was trying to copy Xsetup0 into the source dir, edit it,
> then doins it back, but I kept getting denied by sandbox.

I don't know what the policy is for reading files from the file system, but 
they may be denied.  If that is the case, then you probably need to either 
set up a pkg_config (see php ebuild) routine that the user has to manually 
execute, or print out a message at the end of the ebuild (see the latest 
openssh ebuild for examples).



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