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On Tuesday, November 03, 2015 12:29:01 Joakim Tjernlund wrote: |
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> Sometimes I have to move files from my layman overlays distfiles to |
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> /usr/portage/distfiles in orders to rebuild older stuff not in gentoo |
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> anymore. |
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Wouldn't it be better to fix the ebuilds in the overlay to point at a current |
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URL for the tarball? |
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> Should not emerge search in distfiles where the ebuild resides? |
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No, the ebuild should specify where to get the tarball. |
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Not sure these comments are what you're looking for but it sounds like you |
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just need to fix the ebuilds in your overlay to point at the distfiles in your |
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overlay as a SRC_URI. |
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Just my 2ยข, disregard if too assumptive. |
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Regards, |
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Alex Brandt |
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Software Developer for Rackspace and Developer for Gentoo |
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http://blog.alunduil.com |
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