David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:16:26 -0600 > Harry Putnam wrote: >
>> [ Ebuild HOWTO ] >> >> Reading only partially so far but this looks really complicated. I >> thought I remembered a more nuts and bolts howto somewhere more >> appropriate for someone getting started who is ..er intellectually >> challenged. >> >> I really just want to add an epatch line to an existing ebuild but it >> appears some protocols need to be followed to generate the manifest >> and probably lots of other stuff. >> >> Can anyone point me to something? >> >> I've see it said here a few times that creating an overlay and a >> custom ebuild is `easy' but I suspect that only applies if you already >> know how its done. >> > > I've created a couple of patch ebuilds, so can provide some > (non-expert) info. I don't recall all the steps I took to get > "educated" in this process, but I remember looking at a variety of > ebuilds, the patterns in their names (what's legal), and the commands > used within them. > > For "system/package" (for example mail-filter/bogofilter) one would > > 1) create directory /usr/local/portage/system/package and > copy /usr/portage/system/package/* to it. > > 2) put the patch file in /usr/local/portage/system/package/files/ > > 3) create a new ebuild (with updated version) and an epatch line in > src_install() > > 4) update the manifest file with > > ebuild system/package/package-version.ebuild digest > > Obviously these instructions are somewhat minimal. You'll likely need > to run "emerge package" more than once to get the details right. Thanks, it was a lot of help. However I never did get the pieces right. My patch (really a [EMAIL PROTECTED] contributors) fails once I finally did get enough of it lined up to process that far. After some 40-50 or so attempts I just went ahead and pre patched the main ebuild, ran digest on that... and emerge worked, at least its compiling right now. I realize that way will miss the good side of emerge in the future and get overwritten. But I want to try this package out so maybe I'll get it right later.
