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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] portage feature suggestion
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:21:11
Message-Id: 20010415132111.D12560@cvs.gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] portage feature suggestion by AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)
1 On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 08:33:19PM +0200, Achim Gottinger wrote:
2 > Daniel,
3 >
4 > I have a suggestion for xbuild.
5 >
6 > We can outsource the gentoo specific patching and seding from the unpack
7 > function.
8 >
9 > So src_unpack contains the unpack and non gentoo patches and src_patch
10 > contains the specific modifications.
11 >
12 > The advantage is that it whould be alot of easier to maintain the
13 > patches.
14 >
15 > -ebuild * unpack
16 > -make a copy of the work dir
17 > -ebuild * patch
18 > -make modifications and create a new diff
19
20 Yes, this would be helpful for creating Gentoo-specific patches. We can
21 add this feature in xbuild -- remind me in 4 months :))
22
23 Best Regards,
24
25 --
26 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
27 President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org
28 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.