How can I disable patches of an ebuild?

mike155

app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.26 comes with two patches that lead to a faulty font mapping file Fontmap.GS (see: 1, 2 )

ghostscript-9.25-urw-fonts-naming-1.patch
ghostscript-9.25-urw-fonts-naming-2.patch

How can I tell emerge to skip those patches?

I know that I can ADD patches in /etc/portage/patches. But how can I DISABLE (or skip) patches that are part of an ebuild?

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2018 3:08 pm Post subject:

mike155,

You can cheat.

Create reverse patches from ghostscript-9.25-urw-fonts-naming-1.patch and ghostscript-9.25-urw-fonts-naming-2.patch then add them in the normal way.
The ebuild will do its thing, then apply your reverse patches, giving the result you want.

That's all I can think of without an ebuild modification.
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mike155 · Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2018 6:32 pm Post subject:

Thanks, NeddySeagoon, for your fast answer!

I created a reverse patch and it works :-)