On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:37:06 -0800, Jessica Rasku wrote: > I have tried this twice. Once changing the ebuild in > /var/db/pkg/net-mail/
Don't touch the ebuilds in /var/db/pkg, these are the ebuilds used to uninstall packages, it is a copy of the ebuild used to install the existing version, so altering it could have strange effects. The ebuilds use to install packages are in /usr/portage. you can edit these, but they will be reset after an emerge --sync. > then I created a /root/portage-overlay/ and tried > to do it that way. Putting an overlay directory in /root seems like a bad idea. The portage user won't be able to access it. The standard location is /usr/local/portage, copy the directory for the package you are dealing with to an identical location in here, e.g. /usr/local/portage/net-mail/mailman, before editing the ebuild. -- Neil Bothwick Run with scissors. Remove mattress tags. Top post. Be a rebel.
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