On 14 August 2005 12:52, Holly Bostick wrote: > Uwe Thiem schreef: > > Hi folks, > > > > I am in the process of writing the locale definition for Namibia for > > OpenOffice. Before I submit it, I'd like to test it locally. I thought of > > doing it this way: > > > > Untar OOo_1.1.4_source.tar.gz manually. > > Add my locale definition to resulting source tree. > > Hack the Makefile in that directory (seems easy enough). > > Tar everything up again and mv it to /usr/portage/distfiles. > > Emerge OO again. > > > > Certainly I have to adjust some checksums before emerging it again. When > > I do a "md5sum /usr/portage/distfiles/OOo_1.1.4_source.tar.gz" (before > > changing anything, of course), the resulting checksum does not match any > > of those in the Manifest. I am unsure now what I have to adjust. The only > > file I am going to change is the tarball itself. Anybody to the rescue? > > ;-) > > > > Uwe > > First of all, I would suggest copying the original ebuild to > /usr/local/portage/app-office/openoffice (or wherever you keep your > overlay), along with any files in the /files folder (and the folder > itself) in Portage (so if the build is normally patched by Gentoo, those > patches are available to the overlay build as well). > > I would then revise the ebuild to change the name to something that > specifies that this is your ebuild and not the one in portage > (openoffice-1.1.4-ut, or whatever. IIrc, you also have to edit the > header of the ebuild to conform with the new name, and possibly also the > 'name' of the tarball within the ebuild, if you change the tarball name). > > Tar up your revised source (you might have to/want to name it > OOo_1.1.4_source-ut.tar.gz, which wouldn't be a bad idea in any case) in > /usr/portage/distfiles. > > Then digest the overlay ebuild with > > ebuild > /usr/local/portage/app-office/openoffice/openoffice-1.1.4-ut.ebuild digest > > This will create a manifest using the newly-generated checksum for your > ebuild and tarball. > > Emerge OOo normally-- since your ebuild is newer than the one in > Portage, it should be the one emerged. > > These instructions should be generally valid, but possibly inexact, > since I don't do this that often, but I've done it often enough to > generally remember how it's done when necessary. > > Of course all this pre-supposes that you have an overlay set up in your > /etc/make.conf, but I would imagine that you do, if you're making these > sort of adjustments for upstream programs.
I usually don't but have no choice with OO, need a couple of settings. Nonetheless, I do have an overlay from the days when deltup was not in portage. So I am lucky here. Anyway, thanks a lot, Holly! Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
