[gentoo-user] Re: emerging procmail failure

[Harry Putnam]

Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> writes:

> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Harry Putnam<reader@×××××××.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yes... except _OH CRAP_ I've forgotten whatever little tiny skill I once
>> had to add a patch into the emerge process manually.
>
> man ebuild
>
> HTH :)

Doesn't any manual patching have to be done in an overlay?  My own
portage setup.  Then stepped thru with ebuild to get it accepted by
emerge?

I see no hits at all on either `overlay' or `layman' in man ebuild.
There must be more to the story than just running ebuild commands. And
expect the modified ebuild to be accepted by emerge.