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On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Daniel Iliev wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I want to compile mplayer in a way not supported by the ebuild and |
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> use portage only to keep record of the files installed in system for |
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> future uninstallation. |
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A much better way would be to modify the ebuild to do what you want, |
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then copy it to a local overlay. Portage will use your overlay in |
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preference to the portage tree. You just have to then watch out for |
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newer versions to hit the tree which will supercede your custom ebuild, |
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and modify those new versions similarly. |
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There's an environment variable EXTRA_ECONF intended for *users* to add |
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extra configure options when emerging, but I have heard bad things |
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about using this. Don't know the details, perhaps someone else who does |
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will post in response. |
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Finally, you could just mask out mplayer entirely and build it from |
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source using the default DESTDIR of /usr/local. It's not a complete |
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unistall solution, but at least it doesn't collide with portage's |
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installs in /usr/ |
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man 5 ebuild has lots of info on this topic |
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alan |
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> The system amd64 stable. |
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> I have done the following: |
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> (1) echo media-video/mplayer >> /etc/portage/package.keywords |
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> // "emerge -p mplayer" now gives: |
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> media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p24929-r2 // |
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> (2) echo media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p24929-r2 |
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> >> /etc/portage/package.provided |
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> (3) ebuild `equery w mplayer` unpack |
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> (4) cd $PORTAGE_TMPDIR/portage/media-video/mplayer-*/work/mplayer* |
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> (5) ./configure --the-way-I-want-it-to-be |
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> (6)make |
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> (7) cd ../../ |
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> (8) touch .compiled |
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> (9) ebuild `equery w mplayer` merge |
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> Everything seems to be OK until I try "emerge -DuNav world". After |
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> this point portage wants to rebuild mplayer, showing all USE flags |
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> as newly added (e.g. "alsa%"). I expected putting mplayer |
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> into /etc/portage/package.keywords to make portage ignore this |
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> package. |
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> Where is my mistake and what is the correct method I should follow? |
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> -- |
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> Best regards, |
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> Daniel |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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