Re: [gentoo-user] Hooks for Portage 2.1?

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

On Saturday 30 September 2006 19:32, ps@××××××××××.cz wrote:
> > I don't think the hooks are useful for that.
>
> i have been told to use these two:
> post_src_unpack/pre_src_compile
> (but dont know how).
>
> > Why not just copy the ebuild to
> > an overlay and apply the patch in the ebuild in the overlay?
>
> basically because its tedious to make new ebuild for each new version for
> a given package when i have some particular patch i always want to apply.

Hmm... Well, if you want to apply foo.patch on category/name all you really 
need to do should be something like:

# mkdir -p /etc/portage/env/category && echo "post_src_unpack() {
        epatch /absolute/path/to/foo.patch
}" >> /etc/portage/env/category/name

-- 
Bo Andresen