On Friday, 22 December 2006 1:02, Alexander Zubkov wrote: > Hi! > I have some idea on extending portage building system (ebuild?). > Sometimes I'm (for example) want to apply custom patch to some package. > This patch can do something unusual, that can not be accepted by > maintainers and I know this. But I like features in my patch and want it > to apply automatically when updating the package. Not to do it like this: > $ ebuild /usr/portage/pkg-categoty/some-package/some-package-1.0 unpack > $ cd /var/tmp/portage/pkg-categoty/some-package/work/... > $ patch -p1 < ~/my-patch-for-some-package > $ cd > $ ebuild /usr/portage/pkg-categoty/some-package/some-package-1.0 merge > > It is lot of manual work. The idea is having an file, for example > /etc/portage/package.patch with contents like this: > =pkg-category/some-package-1* /path/to/my-patch-for-some-package > > Of course, patches could fail in newer versions. But when I'll use that > feature - I'll understand why it can be and it'll be more convenient to > maintain it.
You can edit ebuilds to apply whatever patches you want and put them in an overlay. Usually it's just an epatch line that needs to be added. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
