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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Problem writing my first ebuild
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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