From: "Chad M. Huneycutt" <chad.huneycutt@acm.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Problem writing my first ebuild
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 19:35:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D0A7DB9.4090109@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020615010924.45b657a7.degrenier@easyconnect.fr
Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
> I'm trying to write an ebuild for "xawdecode", a TV program based on
> "xawtv". I've based on xawtv-3.7.2.ebuild, but I have a problem: a few
> files, some fonts to go in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc, are shared by
> this two program, so I can't emerge my application because of a sandbox
> write lock. How are we supposed to deal with this kind of
> incompatibility ? I've though about patching the Makefile to place the
> font somewhere else, but I don't feel it really satisfying.
You are missing a very important point. Your ebuild should not be writing
*anything* to the live filesystem. Everything goes in ${D}
(/var/tmp/portage/<pkg-name>/image/). Have you looked at other ebuilds?
In particular, you should look at some examples of dodir and doins.
Chad
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-14 23:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-14 23:09 [gentoo-dev] Problem writing my first ebuild Thomas de Grenier de Latour
2002-06-14 23:35 ` Chad M. Huneycutt [this message]
2002-06-15 0:08 ` [gentoo-dev] " Thomas de Grenier de Latour
2002-06-14 23:52 ` Thomas de Grenier de Latour
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