Andrew Lowe schrieb: > Hi all, > I've had a look on the web but can't seem to find any instructions > on how to do the patching of ebuilds. I have the situation where I've > tried to install the media centre app MMSV2. I've done the emerge, a lot > of dependent functionality was compiled and now it's up to compiling the > actual MMSV2. When compiling, an error happens. I had a look in > bugs.gentoo.org and there is a bug in there that covers, I think, the > failure. > > Attached to the bug is a patch that someone has developed. I now > want to use this patch to patch the ebuild and see if it really does fix > the problem. My problem is that I don't know the actual steps needed to > do the patching. I know about the patch utility but I don't know where > the actual files are, and how I should do the patching so that Portage > does not view the patched files as corrupt and therefore won't do the > emerge. > > If someone can tell me how, or point me to a webpage that tells me > how, to do the patching it would be greatly appreciated. > > Regards, > Andrew >
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Creating_an_Updated_Ebuild
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