Re: [gentoo-user] Manually compiling a gentoo package

2006-05-26 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Richard Fish wrote: On 5/22/06, Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks, Richard. Those steps did the trick. And the author's correction fixed the problem also. Cool. If upstream is going to apply the patch to a future release that may be some weeks off, you might consider fil

Re: [gentoo-user] Manually compiling a gentoo package

2006-05-23 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Richard Fish wrote: On 5/22/06, Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks, Richard. Those steps did the trick. And the author's correction fixed the problem also. Cool. If upstream is going to apply the patch to a future release that may be some weeks off, you might consider fil

Re: [gentoo-user] Manually compiling a gentoo package

2006-05-23 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/22/06, Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks, Richard. Those steps did the trick. And the author's correction fixed the problem also. Cool. If upstream is going to apply the patch to a future release that may be some weeks off, you might consider filing a bug report on bug

Re: [gentoo-user] Manually compiling a gentoo package

2006-05-22 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Richard Fish wrote: On 5/22/06, Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I need to make a change in the code for a gentoo package (pgcalc2) to check whether it corrects a problem. If I simply download it with emerge -f pgcalc2, make the correction and then try to finish the emerge, it will

Re: [gentoo-user] Manually compiling a gentoo package

2006-05-22 Thread Shaochun Wang
ebuild On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 11:17:03PM -0500, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > I need to make a change in the code for a gentoo package (pgcalc2) to > check whether it corrects a problem. If I simply download it with > emerge -f pgcalc2, make the correction and then try to finish the > emerge, i

Re: [gentoo-user] Manually compiling a gentoo package

2006-05-22 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/22/06, Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I need to make a change in the code for a gentoo package (pgcalc2) to check whether it corrects a problem. If I simply download it with emerge -f pgcalc2, make the correction and then try to finish the emerge, it will fail the md5 check.

Re: [gentoo-user] Manually compiling a gentoo package

2006-05-22 Thread Matthew Cline
I am not a portage expert, but would it be possible to re-tar the fixed source, then re-generate the ebuild digest using: # ebuild digest Then you should be able to continue with the emerge? HTH, Matt On 5/23/06, Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I need to make a change in the co

[gentoo-user] Manually compiling a gentoo package

2006-05-22 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
I need to make a change in the code for a gentoo package (pgcalc2) to check whether it corrects a problem. If I simply download it with emerge -f pgcalc2, make the correction and then try to finish the emerge, it will fail the md5 check. How can I do this? Tony -- Those who would give up ess