On 31/03/2013 20:30, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-03-31 1:10 PM, Yohan Pereira <yohan.pere...@gmail.com> wrote: >> What you need to do is add the original ebuild for udev-171 to your >> local overlay as is. Then run emerge using the -g option see man >> emerge. > > Hmmm... I had thought that the local ebuild was gone due to it being > removed from portage, but yep, there it is: > > myhost : Sun Mar 31, 13:42:50 : ~ > # ls -al /usr portage/sys-fs/udev > total 292 > drwxr-xr-x 3 portage portage 512 Mar 30 12:01 . > drwxr-xr-x 128 portage portage 3488 Mar 31 10:31 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23718 Mar 30 12:01 ChangeLog > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 105929 Mar 15 06:01 ChangeLog-2009 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10729 Mar 15 05:38 ChangeLog-2010 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11721 Mar 15 05:38 ChangeLog-2011 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23242 Mar 15 05:38 ChangeLog-2012 > drwxr-xr-x 2 portage portage 88 Mar 31 10:31 files > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10407 Mar 30 12:01 Manifest > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1401 Mar 28 18:01 metadata.xml > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16093 Feb 2 11:31 udev-171-r10.ebuild > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15057 Mar 6 15:31 udev-197-r8.ebuild > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14100 Mar 24 06:45 udev-198-r6.ebuild > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13431 Mar 29 03:01 udev-199-r1.ebuild > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13384 Mar 30 12:01 udev-200.ebuild > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13388 Mar 30 12:01 udev-9999.ebuild > myhost : Sun Mar 31, 13:42:52 : ~ > # > > So, do I also copy the manifest file? metadata.xml? files dir? Or do I > just copy the ebuild then regenerate the manifest file?
You will need the files dir. metadata.xml is not necessary in your personal overlay. You will almost always regenerate the manifest anyway so copy the original by all means, but you'll likely overwrite it soon -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
