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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild with local source?
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:06:43
Message-Id: 201008241403.30983.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild with local source? by Helmut Jarausch
1 Apparently, though unproven, at 14:01 on Tuesday 24 August 2010, Helmut
2 Jarausch did opine thusly:
3
4 > On 08/24/10 13:45:05, Robin Atwood wrote:
5 > > On Tuesday 24 August 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
6 > > > Hi,
7 > > >
8 > > > I'd like to create an ebuild (in my local overlay) which refers to
9 > >
10 > > a
11 > >
12 > > > local distribution file.
13 > > >
14 > > > I've tried
15 > > >
16 > > > SRC_URI="file::///usr/local/Src/MyPack.tar.bz2"
17 > > >
18 > > > but "file://" doesn't seem to be supported.
19 > > >
20 > > > Is there any alternative?
21 > > >
22 > > > Thanks for a hint,
23 > > > Helmut.
24 > > >
25 > > > (I'm using portage-2.2._rc68)
26 > >
27 > > "ln -s /usr/local/Src/MyPack.tar.bz2 /usr/portage/distfiles" maybe?
28 >
29 > Thanks, but isn't that erased when I resync next time?
30 >
31 > Helmut.
32
33
34 No.
35
36 emerge --sync does not nuke your distfiles.
37 If it does you would know all about it by now.
38
39
40 --
41 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com