Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia drivers and vanilla kernel Linux 4.7.0 anyone?

james <garftd@×××××××.net> [16-07-30 20:52]:
> On 07/30/2016 01:15 PM, Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote:
>
> >>>Short qyestion: How can I apply it...I mean...as soon as I do an
> >>>emerge, either the original source will be unpacked or my package
> >>>will be rejected for being modified an different from the one, which
> >>>does not compile...
>
> >>http://tinyurl.com/jur3t8v
>
> >Meino
>
> I think that is true for EAPI-5. EAPI-6 or later ebuilds should only
> require the patch be located in the dir with the sources
> (/usr/portage<cat/pak>  or /usr/local/portage/<cat/pak>, I think.
> (epatch-users is good to google on. There might be a bit more to it,
> but just google. Also, there are some eclasses that help this out a bit
> for more complicated hacks. [1]
>
> 1] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/eclass-reference/
>
>
> Usually, the best thing to do is put (your) patches and a full copy of
> the ebuild into /usr/local/portage, for a guy like you who is hacking
> at ebuilds for embedded  boards anyway.
>
>
> proxy-maint folks are the best to answer these question and help you,
> cause there are always twists and bumps along the way, like
> dependencies slightly changed and thus requiring a tweak. Unfortunately
> they are only available on the irc channel.  Hopefully on of the devs
> will clear this up even further, as last time I looked, this is a
> subject that the devManual has not fully documented, or anyone compiled
> a few examples for user to look at. It's a moving target depending on
> the EAPI-level of the ebuild.
>
>
> hth,
> James
>
>
Hi James,

thanks for your help ! :)
Will check that... ;)

Best regards,
Meino