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gsilva
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 Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 2:31 am Post subject: [SOLVED] How to: Package patching |
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Hi there!
I've been using Gentoo for almost a year but everytime I have an emerge "problem" I lack the knowledge of how to patch an ebuild. I know how to patch since I've patched the kernel files several times, I simply can't find where portage keeps the source code files and what changes to make in the Manifest... I always end up using flagged version of the package or downgrading it. But that's not right, is it? 
Thanks!
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source code packages: /usr/portage/distfiles/
tip #1: keep your own overlay. Move ebuilds over, fix them up there, digest them there (ebuild <ebuild file> digest), and have fun.
tip #2: never make changes in /usr/portage. Next emerge --sync will take them away.
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gsilva
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| poly_poly-man wrote: | source code packages: /usr/portage/distfiles/
tip #1: keep your own overlay. Move ebuilds over, fix them up there, digest them there (ebuild <ebuild file> digest), and have fun.
tip #2: never make changes in /usr/portage. Next emerge --sync will take them away.
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Thank you!
Just one more thing... if I move the ebuilds to my overlay and patch them there, I'll have the package in portage tree AND my overlay. Won't portage select his own, if I try to emerge it then? |
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No. Portage gives precedence to your local overlay before the portage tree.
(otherwise overlays would be pretty useless...  ) |
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gsilva
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| yabbadabbadont wrote: | No. Portage gives precedence to your local overlay before the portage tree.
(otherwise overlays would be pretty useless... ) |
Thank you.
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| gsilva wrote: | | yabbadabbadont wrote: | No. Portage gives precedence to your local overlay before the portage tree.
(otherwise overlays would be pretty useless... ) |
Thank you.
Mods can close this topic, I'm pretty clarified |
no closing of the topic usually... just throw "[SOLVED]" (without quotes) into the title - use edit on the first post.
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