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On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 20:09:55 +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: |
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> > Overlays are there specifically for people who need |
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> > something different from the standard portage tree. They are |
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> > hardly difficult to use, |
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> Not difficult, but it is clumsy: |
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> mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/category/package |
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> ## Dont't copy all ebuilds, just the one to be tweaked: |
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Unless you are really short of disk space, what's wrong with copying the |
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complete package directory - it makes life much simpler. |
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> cp /usr/portage/category/package/packag-x.y.z.ebuild /usr/local/portage/category/package/ |
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> ## Copy all possible patches: |
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> cp |
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> -a /usr/portage/category/package/files /usr/local/portage/category/package/ |
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> ## Copy the new patch too: cp |
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> package-foo-bar.patch /usr/local/portage/category/package/files/ ## |
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> Edit the ebuild and insert an 'epatch |
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> ${FILESDIR}/package-foo-bar.patch' command: |
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> vim /usr/local/portage/category/package/package-x.y.z.ebuild [search |
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> for src_unpack(), insert extra command at end, :wq] ## Recreate digest: |
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> ebuild /usr/local/portage/category/package/package-x.y.z.ebuild digest |
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> ## Finally, emerge the thing: emerge -1 package |
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If you just want to add a patch, you can do it with bashrc, no need to |
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mess with overlays: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-339019.html |
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> Not hard, but a nuisance. Of course one could write a script that |
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> automates all those seven steps into a single command, but it has |
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> proven a bit beyond my skills (the finding of the category when just |
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> saying 'ovlay.sh package', not to mention the insertion of an epatch |
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> command). Bo once said (or was it someone else?) he had such a |
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> script. |
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There's a script floating around that will copy an ebuild to your overlay |
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and bump its version. Adding patches is easier with bashrc. But neither |
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of these are related to the original question, which was about |
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preserving old versions. for that you only need at most one mkdir and |
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exactly one cp. |
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