On 8/24/10, Helmut Jarausch <jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> On 08/24/10 13:45:05, Robin Atwood wrote:
>> On Tuesday 24 August 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'd like to create an ebuild (in my local overlay) which refers to
>> a
>> > local distribution file.
>> >
>> > I've tried
>> >
>> > SRC_URI="file::///usr/local/Src/MyPack.tar.bz2"
>> >
>> > but "file://" doesn't seem to be supported.
>> >
>> > Is there any alternative?
>> >
>> > Thanks for a hint,
>> > Helmut.
>> >
>> > (I'm using portage-2.2._rc68)
>>
>> "ln -s /usr/local/Src/MyPack.tar.bz2 /usr/portage/distfiles" maybe?
>>
>> HTH
>> -Robin
>
> Hi, but what do I specify for SRC_URI
>
> I've tried
> SRC="MyPack-1.0.7.tar.gz"
> SLOT="0"
> KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 mips ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86"
> IUSE=""
> S="$WORKDIR/${P}"
> src_unpack() {
>       unpack "${A}"
> }
>
> But it fails saying "nothing specified for unpack"
> And, indeed,
> doing
> ebuild --debug <PATH_to_EBUILD> unpack
> shows that ${A} is the empty string.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Thanks a lot, it drives me nuts,
> Helmut.

Place a RESTRICT="fetch" in the ebuild, and copy the tarball manually
to distfiles dir.

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