[gentoo-dev] Eclass subdirectory for x-modular.eclass

[gentoo-dev] Eclass subdirectory for x-modular.eclass

[Joshua Baergen]

In an attempt to patch all driver packages automatically, I've modified 
x-modular.eclass to do something along the lines of what elibtoolize 
does for its patching.  However, this would require the storage of a 
patch for x-modular.eclass, which I would intend to place in a 
subdirectory of eclass (my current choice is x-modular-files).

Am I allowed to create this subdirectory, or does this break 
policy/anything else I'm unaware of?

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Eclass subdirectory for x-modular.eclass

[Ciaran McCreesh]

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On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:13:08 -0700 Joshua Baergen
<joshuabaergen@gentoo.org> wrote:
| In an attempt to patch all driver packages automatically, I've
| modified x-modular.eclass to do something along the lines of what
| elibtoolize does for its patching.  However, this would require the
| storage of a patch for x-modular.eclass, which I would intend to
| place in a subdirectory of eclass (my current choice is
| x-modular-files).
| 
| Am I allowed to create this subdirectory, or does this break 
| policy/anything else I'm unaware of?

Don't. ELT is a nasty hacky mess, you don't want to repeat that
mistake. Use SRC_URI instead.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Eclass subdirectory for x-modular.eclass

[Donnie Berkholz]

Joshua Baergen wrote:
> In an attempt to patch all driver packages automatically, I've modified 
> x-modular.eclass to do something along the lines of what elibtoolize 
> does for its patching.  However, this would require the storage of a 
> patch for x-modular.eclass, which I would intend to place in a 
> subdirectory of eclass (my current choice is x-modular-files).
> 
> Am I allowed to create this subdirectory, or does this break 
> policy/anything else I'm unaware of?

To be more clear for people who aren't familiar with elibtoolize -- it 
has a subdirectory eclass/ELT-patches/ that it keeps its patches in.

Thanks,
Donnie
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Eclass subdirectory for x-modular.eclass

[Martin Schlemmer]

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On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 12:13 -0700, Joshua Baergen wrote:
> In an attempt to patch all driver packages automatically, I've modified 
> x-modular.eclass to do something along the lines of what elibtoolize 
> does for its patching.  However, this would require the storage of a 
> patch for x-modular.eclass, which I would intend to place in a 
> subdirectory of eclass (my current choice is x-modular-files).
> 
> Am I allowed to create this subdirectory, or does this break 
> policy/anything else I'm unaware of?
> 

The only reason elibtoolize use this abortion from hell, is because it
needs to be working from day one.

Use ${P}-patches-{PVER}.tar.bz2, and set PVER (or whatever) before
inheriting the eclass.


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Eclass subdirectory for x-modular.eclass

[Joshua Baergen]

Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> Use ${P}-patches-{PVER}.tar.bz2, and set PVER (or whatever) before
> inheriting the eclass.
>
>   
Thanks, I will do that.

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