Along the same line, I've been wondering if 3rd party ebuilds for gentoo
for stuff not already in gentoo are common on places like freshmeat, as are
packages for other distributions for open source work not already available
through the distribution's regular channels. The answer to the above
I have a couple of questions regarding installation of ebuilds.
I recently had to install a patched ebuild from a standalone ebuild supplied
by a gentoo developer. Although the man page for ebuild documents the use of
a standalone external file as a source for an ebuild, following the
directions
Take a look at PORTDIR_OVERLAY in /etc/make.conf
Lindsay Haisley wrote:
I have a couple of questions regarding installation of ebuilds.
I recently had to install a patched ebuild from a standalone ebuild supplied
by a gentoo developer. Although the man page for ebuild documents the use of
a
Yes, I have PORTDIR_OVERLAY defined, but this doesn't really address my
question. In particular, I had some difficulty installing the patch from a
gentoo maintainer:
# ebuild gnome-panel-2.4.0-r2.ebuild unpack
!!! aux_get(): ebuild for '/gnome-panel-2.4.0-r2' does not exist at:
!!!
The ebuild needs to be in the regular portage or
PORTDIR_OVERLAY directories. From what you said the patch
ebuild was in root - that won't work.
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:43:26 -0500
Lindsay Haisley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, I have PORTDIR_OVERLAY defined, but this doesn't
really address my
