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On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Q wrote: |
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> You didn't need this. It's for third-party e-builds, but you aren't |
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> using a third party e-build. The zip file came from Sun, but the |
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> ebuild is in the Gentoo portage tree. |
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> Ebuilds are just scripts which portage uses to build the packages. In |
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> this case, the ebuild isn't allowed to download the files it needs |
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> automagically, but it's still a Gentoo ebuild, not a third-party one. |
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> I've snipped the rest of what you wrote about overlays, &c., but it |
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> didn't look like anything was wrong, just unnecessary for what you want |
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> to do. For more info about overlays, see |
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> <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml>. |
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Thanks for the additional info. Good to know! |
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Rather than clutter the list with a lot of thanks, let me just say thanks |
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to all for any future replies written before knowing that I went ahead and |
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took the plunge and it worked. |
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Bo Grimes |
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