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On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:26 AM, Andrew Lowe <agl@×××××××.au> wrote: |
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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 to |
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> install the media centre app MMSV2. I've done the emerge, a lot of dependent |
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> functionality was compiled and now it's up to compiling the actual MMSV2. |
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> When compiling, an error happens. I had a look in bugs.gentoo.org and there |
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> is a bug in there that covers, I think, the failure. |
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> |
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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 the |
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> patching. I know about the patch utility but I don't know where the actual |
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> files are, and how I should do the patching so that Portage does not view |
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> the patched files as corrupt and therefore won't do the emerge. |
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> |
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> If someone can tell me how, or point me to a webpage that tells me |
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> how, to do the patching it would be greatly appreciated. |
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> |
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> Regards, |
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> Andrew |
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You can usually use the "ebuild" command to do the portage steps |
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separately, so after unpacking you can change to the portage tmpdir |
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and apply the patch from bugzilla. Then proceed with the making and |
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installing steps with "ebuild". |
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