Martin & Jason, Thanks for your responses. I'll keep copies in my home directory to ensure nothign gets lost.
How long before this sort of thing ends up in emerge sync naturally? Cheers, MArk > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Klaffenboeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 7:36 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Using an unreleased ebuild > > You sould keep it somewhere in your home directory. You can copy it > somehwere in the portage tree, where you think it belongs to. > > Then do > > ebuild /path/to/file.ebuild digest > emerge /path/to/file.ebuild > > That sould work in the most of cases. > > When you later user 'emerge rsync' your file gets deleted. But your > programm is installed and can be deinstalled, if you want. When you > get the file via 'emerge rsync', you can reuse it, but you don't have > to. > > I'm new on gentoo, but that worked for me. Maybe other people can tell > you a better way, I don't know. > > Martin > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
