Re: [gentoo-dev] Patching sources in a build

[Jon Portnoy]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 02:00:12PM +0000, Andy Arbon wrote:
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> Hello,
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> Is there any way to get emerge to allow you to apply a patch before the
> configuration and build happens?
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> I've just tried out the -ck kernel, which built fine, but in order to
> get nvidia-kernel to build correctly against it I have to apply a patch.
> ~ At the moment the only way I can see to do this is to move the
> nvidia-kernel ebuild to $PORTDIR_OVERLAY and add the patching
> requirement to it there.
>
> Is that the only way to add a patch of my own to a build and still have
> emerge/ebuild build it for me? If I use ebuild to
> unpack/compile/install/qmerge the build and try and tamper with the
> source in the middle it will complain, won't it?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andy

ebuild /path/to/ebuild unpack
cd /var/tmp/portage (and apply your patch in the relevant directory)
ebuild /path/to/ebuild compile install qmerge

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Jon Portnoy

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