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From: MAL <mal@×××××××.com>
To: Alastair Tse <liquidx@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild question
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 14:22:48
Message-Id: 3ED76937.8040506@komcept.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild question by Alastair Tse
1 Alastair Tse wrote:
2 > On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 12:15, MAL wrote:
3 >
4 >
5 >>a) possibly portage has a function to specify that access to
6 >>/etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules is allowed.
7 >
8 >
9 > Thats a no no. Unless there is absolutely no way to patch that
10 > behaviour.
11 >
12 >
13 >>b) I provide a patch to the sources to stop this happening, then do it
14 >>myself in the ebuild after install.
15 >
16 >
17 > You have to patch that part out and make sure you can produce the same
18 > effect during pkg_postinst() and also reverse the effect when you do
19 > pkg_postrm() (if possible.) You need to test it pretty well to make sure
20 > pkg_postinst() and pkg_postrm() works as expected, esp in regards
21 > prefixing paths with ${ROOT} when writing files, etc.
22
23 Thanks for the info, see what you think:
24
25 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21953
26
27 Is it better to upload an ebuild as a .tar.bz2 with digests, patches
28 etc. all included?
29
30 Cheers,
31 MAL
32
33
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Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild question Alastair Tse <liquidx@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild question Seemant Kulleen <seemant@g.o>