Re: [gentoo-user] Convert quickpkg of udev-171-r10 to local overlay...

[Alan McKinnon]

On 31/03/2013 20:30, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 2013-03-31 1:10 PM, Yohan Pereira <yohan.pereira@×××××.com> wrote:
>> What you need to do is add the original ebuild for udev-171 to your
>> local overlay as is. Then run emerge using the -g option see man
>> emerge.
>
> Hmmm... I had thought that the local ebuild was gone due to it being
> removed from portage, but yep, there it is:
>
> myhost : Sun Mar 31, 13:42:50 : ~
>  # ls -al /usr portage/sys-fs/udev
> total 292
> drwxr-xr-x   3 portage portage    512 Mar 30 12:01 .
> drwxr-xr-x 128 portage portage   3488 Mar 31 10:31 ..
> -rw-r--r--   1 root    root     23718 Mar 30 12:01 ChangeLog
> -rw-r--r--   1 root    root    105929 Mar 15 06:01 ChangeLog-2009
> -rw-r--r--   1 root    root     10729 Mar 15 05:38 ChangeLog-2010
> -rw-r--r--   1 root    root     11721 Mar 15 05:38 ChangeLog-2011
> -rw-r--r--   1 root    root     23242 Mar 15 05:38 ChangeLog-2012
> drwxr-xr-x   2 portage portage     88 Mar 31 10:31 files
> -rw-r--r--   1 root    root     10407 Mar 30 12:01 Manifest
> -rw-r--r--   1 root    root      1401 Mar 28 18:01 metadata.xml
> -rw-r--r--   1 root    root     16093 Feb  2 11:31 udev-171-r10.ebuild
> -rw-r--r--   1 root    root     15057 Mar  6 15:31 udev-197-r8.ebuild
> -rw-r--r--   1 root    root     14100 Mar 24 06:45 udev-198-r6.ebuild
> -rw-r--r--   1 root    root     13431 Mar 29 03:01 udev-199-r1.ebuild
> -rw-r--r--   1 root    root     13384 Mar 30 12:01 udev-200.ebuild
> -rw-r--r--   1 root    root     13388 Mar 30 12:01 udev-9999.ebuild
> myhost : Sun Mar 31, 13:42:52 : ~
>  #
>
> So, do I also copy the manifest file? metadata.xml? files dir? Or do I
> just copy the ebuild then regenerate the manifest file?

You will need the files dir.
metadata.xml is not necessary in your personal overlay.
You will almost always regenerate the manifest anyway so copy the
original by all means, but you'll likely overwrite it soon




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Alan McKinnon
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