On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 03:40:37 +0000 (UTC), James wrote:

> > You can often do it without touching the ebuild at all by putting  
> 
> > post_src_unpack() {
> >         cd "${S}"
> >         epatch_user
> > }  
> 
> > in /etc/portage/env/category/package[-version]  
> 
> Nice trick to know.  But,
> I do not have an /etc/portage/env/ dir?
> Just make them up?

Yes. Portage doesn't know which directories you need, just create them
when you do.

> Or is this the reference:
> http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/env

That's a different, but equally useful, use of /etc/portage/env.

> Any docs somewhere as this looks more like a "sets" trick?

The functions are explained in man 5 ebuild, /etc/portage is covered in
man portage. The rest was gathered by starting at http:///www and working
down...


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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