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 use a bashrc script http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-339019.html -- Timothy `Drizzt` Redaelli - http://drizzt.bsdnet.eu/blog/ FreeSBIE Developer, Gentoo Developer, GUFI Staff There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
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