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Hi all, |
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I've had a look on the web but can't seem to find any instructions on |
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how to do the patching of ebuilds. I have the situation where I've tried |
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to install the media centre app MMSV2. I've done the emerge, a lot of |
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dependent functionality was compiled and now it's up to compiling the |
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actual MMSV2. When compiling, an error happens. I had a look in |
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bugs.gentoo.org and there is a bug in there that covers, I think, the |
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failure. |
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Attached to the bug is a patch that someone has developed. I now want |
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to use this patch to patch the ebuild and see if it really does fix the |
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problem. My problem is that I don't know the actual steps needed to do |
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the patching. I know about the patch utility but I don't know where the |
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actual files are, and how I should do the patching so that Portage does |
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not view the patched files as corrupt and therefore won't do the emerge. |
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If someone can tell me how, or point me to a webpage that tells me how, |
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to do the patching it would be greatly appreciated. |
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Regards, |
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Andrew |