Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] local overlay problem
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 06:00:53
Message-Id: 20130201075950.48286bda@khamul.example.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] local overlay problem by Philip Webb
1 On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 23:38:27 -0500
2 Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote:
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4 > > When running `ebuild <file> digest`, it has to have
5 > > all possible files available in order to update the Manifest file.
6 > > Those languages won't be installed when you actually install
7 > > your modified package. You'll probably want to keep them around
8 > > until you're finished making changes, though.
9 >
10 > Why doesn't this happen when I do my weekly 'eix-sync' ?
11 > Perhaps it silently downloads them, then deletes them again,
12 > or perhaps it simply downloads the Manifest on those occasions,
13 > but has to calculate it specially for the non-Portage overlay.
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15 The Manifest was already calculated by the dev for all those little
16 files in the original, so portage didn't need to redo it.
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18 The only file you changed is the ebuild itself. So copy the manifest
19 over from the original, delete the line for the ebuild and run digest
20 again.
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25 Alan McKinnon
26 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com