Re: [gentoo-user] How to get overlaid ebuilds to use custom patches

[Richard Fish]

On 8/13/06, reader@×××××××.com <reader@×××××××.com> wrote:
> The Overlay how seems to be saying one just needs to put any patches
> in ../portage/subname/pkg/files
>
> To get ebuild to use them.  That appears not to happen for me.

You also need to modify your new .ebuild.  In the current samba
ebuilds, you will find a src_unpack() function, and a couple of lines
that look like this:

        export EPATCH_SUFFIX="patch"
        epatch ${PATCHDIR}/general
        if use oav ; then
        ...
        fi

So after the "fi" line, add a new line to tell portage to apply your
patch.  Something like:

        epatch ${PATCHDIR}/mypatch

Your patch will need a ".patch" extension, and you will need to re-run
the ebuild digest command again after modifying it.

-Richard
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