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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How install a local ebuild?
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:04:39
Message-Id: 20080214130315.788dd138@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] How install a local ebuild? by Ale
1 On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:56:23 -0300, Ale wrote:
2
3 > I have a ebuild for WICD, taken from bugzilla i don't know hot to
4 > install it. man portage says emerge /path/to/ebuild is depracated. I
5 > have to make my own overlay to put there custom ebuild? which is the
6 > better way to install local ebuild's?
7
8 Set PORTDIR_OVERLAY in /etc/make.conf to, say, /usr/portage/local then
9 mkdir -p /usr/portage/local/net-misc/wicd, copy the ebuild to that
10 directory then do
11 ebuild /usr/portage/local/net-misc/wicd/wicd-1.3.8-r1.ebuild manifest
12 and emerge it in the usual way.
13
14
15 --
16 Neil Bothwick
17
18 If God had intended Man to program, we'd be born with serial I/O ports.

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Re: [gentoo-user] How install a local ebuild? Ale <elcorreodeale@×××××.com>