Brett, Marius, Donnie, Christopher & Dan, Thanks for the great descriptions! I've got the source unpacked now and am working on trying to apply the patches and replacing a few files. Hopefully I can get this part handled and try the ebuild qmerge step later this evening.
Thanks for all your help. Cheers, Mark On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 20:26, Dan Foster wrote: > Hot Diggety! Mark Knecht was rumored to have written: > > > > WORKDIR seems to work out to /var/tmp/portage/<package>/work, which > > Aye, that is correct. > > > Has some process cleaned this up? Maybe this is my problem? I'm trying > > Aye, that is also correct. > > After a successful emerge, it deletes the work directory... UNLESS the > FEATURES for that ebuild specifies 'noclean'. 'man ebuild' for more info. > > One way to do what you want to do would be to: > > # ebuild /path/to/ebuild.file fetch > # ebuild /path/to/ebuild.file unpack > > unpack not only untars the tar file, it also applies the retrieved patches > as well. Unpacks into /var/tmp/portage/<pkg name>/work as you deduced. > > At that point, you can fiddle with the sources if you like -- it does not > start a compile unless you do the 'ebuild <ebuild.file path> compile' command > which executes src_compile() function in the ebuild file for that package. > > -Dan > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
