On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 08:56 -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:
> Hi I was reading the bug report 114915 at gentoo bugzilla and it
> mentions a patch to ebuid, I had downloaded the patch but I don't have
> any clue about how can I apply it to current ebuid.
well, how confident are you at having a go? Search the wiki for
"portage overlay". Essentially it involves making a directory
(like /usr/local/portage) and putting modified ebuilds in there.
You only have to copy as much or as little of /usr/portage as you like,
that may only be 2 or 3 files.
The patching itself is done with the `patch` command line tool. man
patch will give you more help there. Usually its `patch -px <patchfile`
The reason for adding it to the overlay (your other option is patching
straight to /usr/portage) is because /usr/portage will be overwritten by
the next emerge --sync.
Hope this gives you a head start, post back if you need more info.
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