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On Saturday 26 February 2011 00:43:43 Mark Shields wrote: |
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> Saw that you linked to the "creating an updated ebuild" from gentoo-wiki, |
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> so what I say may overlay quite a bit, but hear me out: |
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> It depends on how the ebuild is built. If it references the version by the |
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> ebuild file name, which is very common, you can create an overlay for the |
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> ebuild, copy the ebuild to it, rename the ebuild file to have the new |
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> version number as part of it, digest the ebuild, make sure the overlay is |
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> listed in your make.conf file, then try to emerge it. I did this with |
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> Webmin. Yes, I know it's masked and new versions have effectively been |
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> dropped from portage; but I use it, and it worked fine. |
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Not related to the OP's question, but couldn't stop myself from asking: |
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Why is/was webmin dropped from portage? |
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I saw bug 348432 for webmin-1.530, but other than offering an ebuild it didn't |
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say. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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