Thanks a lot.
Could you tell me what the PORTDIR_OVERLAY is?
I read the ebuild of the gemtoo-dev-sources just now.
Well, there are 2 tarballs with patches. Can someone tell me where
${DISTDIR} is? I'd like to have a look at the tarballs to at least know
what I'm patching. ... or where do I find the genpatches-*?
... and where is ${WORKDIR}? Maybe the 0000_README will tell me what I
want to know.
Thanks in advance
Frank
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 16:08 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote:
> Frank Schafer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I need to patch my kernel with:
> >
> > http://shayol.bartol.udel.edu/~rhdt/download/acpi_sbs-20050120.tar.gz
> >
> >
> >
> > to make the battery monitor work.
> >
> > Cause of such tasks I used to use vanilla kernels from kernel.org before
> > gentoo. I had to learn from this forum that the system don't know where
> > the kernel sources are if the kernel sources wasn't installed using
> > emerge.
> >
> > Now my question:
> > The gentoo kernel is heavy patched already. This often leads to failure
> > of further patches.
> > How can I make a copy of the kernel sources before applying the patch
> > and ensure that the system knows furtheron where the kernel sources are?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Frank
> >
>
> You don't have to use the gentoo-patched sources; vanilla sources are
> available through Portage as 'development-sources'. Emerge those, patch
> to your hearts content, and have the best of both worlds...
>
> ... if you want to have the best of all worlds possible, copy the
> development-sources ebuild to your PORTDIR_OVERLAY, edit it to patch the
> sources automatically with your selected patch (see any
> gentoo-dev-sources ebuild for the methodology), and emerge that instead
> of the "regular' ebuild. Portage will still know where the sources are,
> and your patching will be automated.
>
> HTH,
> Holly
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