On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:53:12 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > >> ebuild /path/to/category/package.ebuild unpack >> >> Read the man page, I'm not sure if things like fetching will be done >> when necessary. > > It will, ebuild carries out any prior steps if they are needed. You may > want to use ebuild ... prepare instead of ebuild ... unpack. It carries > out any pre-compilation steps, like applying patches. > > If you are doing this because you want to apply a patch yourself, you can > use one of the above, apply your patches, then run ebuild ... merge to > complete the process and install it. man 1 ebuild explains it all. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > What do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered > plant? >
In my case, due to conversations on another list about a piece of software that's important to me, it was simply to look at how copyrights are set up in that program's source code. (I.e. - who's names are named, what dates, etc.) Cheers, Mark
