From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GAVkI-0000nS-OL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2006 17:52:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k78HoPKm007663; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 17:50:25 GMT Received: from banta-im.com (roy-rogers.nfic.com [208.231.230.100]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k78Hkeel028582 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 17:46:41 GMT Received: from by banta-im.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA13174 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 13:46:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44D8CDFF.7020505@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 13:46:39 -0400 From: Joshua Nichols User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060807) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] client+server packages - build which one? References: <200606091410.51183.uberlord@gentoo.org> <20060609205201.0911ad40@c1358217.kevquinn.com> <20060808085657.GA15665@nibiru.local> <200608081111.59602.uberlord@gentoo.org> <20060808105527.GE15665@nibiru.local> <20060808111001.GG12154@seldon> <20060808144607.GA28194@nibiru.local> In-Reply-To: <20060808144607.GA28194@nibiru.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 293fd3b2-fb53-45a3-9300-2ff29bd94045 X-Archives-Hash: b074c722e6f046df4d61b1f25b7776fe Enrico Weigelt wrote: > How can I get an patch downloaded from some location and then applied ? > I've inspecting some ebuilds in the portage tree and learned how to > apply patches in the files/ subdir. Now I need to know, how to download > the patches (simply add them to $SRC_URI ?) and then get them referenced > for applying ? > > You should be able to put it in SRC_URI, and it'll get downloaded. It will then be available in ${DISTDIR} iirc... so you can just go: epatch ${DISTDIR}/something.patch -- Joshua Nichols Gentoo/Java - Project Lead -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list