On Sunday 30 April 2006 14:44, David Corbin wrote: > I would like to debug an ebuild that is not working for me. I've > googled and not found anything terrible useful. Can anyone point me > at a HOWTO or some such? > > When I tried to 'ebuild' a copy the ebuild outside of the > /usr/protage directory, it complains that it "is not in a valid > PORTDIR heirarchy". Is there a way to run do this? > > If I hack in some additional statements, ebuild fails with the > 'digest verification'. Again, any pointers around this type of > problem would be helpful.
You better create an overlay to portage, see for example: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Installing_3rd_Party_Ebuilds See also ebuild man page: man -a ebuild ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.16-gentoo-r4, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Wed Apr 26 06:59:58 CEST 2006 One 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 2007.31 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
