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On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:37:06 -0800, Jessica Rasku wrote: |
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> I have tried this twice. Once changing the ebuild in |
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> /var/db/pkg/net-mail/ |
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Don't touch the ebuilds in /var/db/pkg, these are the ebuilds used to |
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uninstall packages, it is a copy of the ebuild used to install the |
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existing version, so altering it could have strange effects. The ebuilds |
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use to install packages are in /usr/portage. you can edit these, but they |
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will be reset after an emerge --sync. |
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> then I created a /root/portage-overlay/ and tried |
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> to do it that way. |
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Putting an overlay directory in /root seems like a bad idea. The portage |
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user won't be able to access it. The standard location |
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is /usr/local/portage, copy the directory for the package you are dealing |
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with to an identical location in here, |
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e.g. /usr/local/portage/net-mail/mailman, before editing the ebuild. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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