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From: Ale <elcorreodeale@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How install a local ebuild?
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:10:26
Message-Id: 60a795cd0802140507kbb3705dk8cc1b2328f8fe071@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How install a local ebuild? by Neil Bothwick
1 Thanks both! : )
2
3 Cheers!.
4
5 2008/2/14, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>:
6 >
7 > On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:56:23 -0300, Ale wrote:
8 >
9 > > I have a ebuild for WICD, taken from bugzilla i don't know hot to
10 > > install it. man portage says emerge /path/to/ebuild is depracated. I
11 > > have to make my own overlay to put there custom ebuild? which is the
12 > > better way to install local ebuild's?
13 >
14 >
15 > Set PORTDIR_OVERLAY in /etc/make.conf to, say, /usr/portage/local then
16 > mkdir -p /usr/portage/local/net-misc/wicd, copy the ebuild to that
17 > directory then do
18 > ebuild /usr/portage/local/net-misc/wicd/wicd-1.3.8-r1.ebuild manifest
19 > and emerge it in the usual way.
20 >
21 >
22 >
23 > --
24 > Neil Bothwick
25 >
26 > If God had intended Man to program, we'd be born with serial I/O ports.
27 >
28 >