From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.2 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_REJECT, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from jomama.huneycuttfamily.org (c-24-98-65-184.atl.client2.attbi.com [24.98.65.184]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0E7AABD78 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 18:35:57 -0500 (CDT) Received: from acm.org (unknown [192.168.1.218]) by jomama.huneycuttfamily.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 264E61C927 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 16:05:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3D0A7DB9.4090109@acm.org> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 19:35:21 -0400 From: "Chad M. Huneycutt" Organization: Georgia Tech College of Computing User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020520 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Problem writing my first ebuild References: <20020615010924.45b657a7.degrenier@easyconnect.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Reply-To: chadh@cc.gatech.edu List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 11a34101-53b1-47c7-8cee-3dd7c20442fc X-Archives-Hash: 42fa7898dd79c1b57a8872f306444271 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//image/). Have you looked at other ebuilds? In particular, you should look at some examples of dodir and doins. Chad