Re: [gentoo-user] question about portage capabilities

2009-04-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 19 April 2009 03:33:18 Denis wrote: Hello all, I am using a package called Rasmol, which is used for visualization of molecular structures. This software uses a certain table for atomic sizes, and I need to change some values in that table - it is stored in a header file within

Re: [gentoo-user] question about portage capabilities

2009-04-19 Thread Denis
I would like to thank everyone who responded for taking the time and explaining ways how my goal can be accomplished. I did look into how a patch may be written, but basically, in my case, I just needed to tweak a couple constants in the Rasmol source code. I haven't educated myself on how to

[gentoo-user] question about portage capabilities

2009-04-18 Thread Denis
Hello all, I am using a package called Rasmol, which is used for visualization of molecular structures. This software uses a certain table for atomic sizes, and I need to change some values in that table - it is stored in a header file within Rasmol source code. There is an ebuild for Rasmol,

Re: [gentoo-user] question about portage capabilities

2009-04-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Denis denis@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I am using a package called Rasmol, which is used for visualization of molecular structures. This software uses a certain table for atomic sizes, and I need to change some values in that table - it is stored in a

Re: [gentoo-user] question about portage capabilities

2009-04-18 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:33:18 -0400 Denis denis@gmail.com wrote: I am using a package called Rasmol, which is used for visualization of molecular structures. This software uses a certain table for atomic sizes, and I need to change some values in that table - it is stored in a header file

Re: [gentoo-user] question about portage capabilities

2009-04-18 Thread Jorge Morais
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:33:18 -0400 Denis denis@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I am using a package called Rasmol, which is used for visualization of molecular structures. This software uses a certain table for atomic sizes, and I need to change some values in that table - it is stored in

Re: [gentoo-user] question about portage capabilities

2009-04-18 Thread Jorge Morais
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:23:24 -0500 Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: ebuild /usr/portage/foo-bar/yourpkg-1.2.3.ebuild unpack ebuild /usr/portage/foo-bar/yourpkg-1.2.3.ebuild prepare ebuild /usr/portage/foo-bar/yourpkg-1.2.3.ebuild configure ebuild