[gentoo-dev] Local patches and emerge

[gentoo-dev] Local patches and emerge

[Chris Wolfe]

Any way to get emerge to add local patches without having to modify the 
ebuild in question?

Am currently putting together a server on which a fair number of the 
packages have needed tweaking at the source level to get required 
functionality. At the moment I am using ebuild unpack, then patching and 
running compile install and qmerge. If there is no easy solution at the 
moment I will probably just tweak emerge to add a directory to look in for 
local patches.

Chris

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Local patches and emerge

[Chris Gianelloni]

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On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 12:42, Chris Wolfe wrote:
> Any way to get emerge to add local patches without having to modify the 
> ebuild in question?
> 
> Am currently putting together a server on which a fair number of the 
> packages have needed tweaking at the source level to get required 
> functionality. At the moment I am using ebuild unpack, then patching and 
> running compile install and qmerge. If there is no easy solution at the 
> moment I will probably just tweak emerge to add a directory to look in for 
> local patches.

Wouldn't it just be *much* quicker to add a simple 

epatch ${FILESDIR}/patchname

line to the ebuild and keep a local copy in your overlay?  I would think
trying to modify emerge itself seems a bit of a wasted effort
considering how easy it is to keep your own overlay.

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Chris Gianelloni
Developer, Gentoo Linux
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