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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:03:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F98D716.7000109@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120425224433.2fa0f2de@gentoo.org>

On 04/25/2012 09:44 PM, Ryan Hill wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:41:39 +0100
> David Leverton <levertond@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
>> The point I was trying to get at was that it seems a bit heavyweight to 
>> rely on a whole eclass for a minor use-case, as well as a bit 
>> error-prone to expect people to remember it every time, but maybe that's 
>> the least bad option after all....
> 
> Yeah the whole idea here was to make user patches available without ebuild
> modifications or eclass dependence.

Using the "apply_user_patches_here" approach [1] that Ciaran suggested,
the ebuild wouldn't need any modification unless it overrides
default_src_prepare. There is not necessarily any "eclass dependence",
though the ebuild may call eclass functions such as eautoreconf when
necessary.

[1]
http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_c228be85e0c4e577ad194e6004d59062.xml
-- 
Thanks,
Zac



  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-26  5:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-15  8:16 [gentoo-dev] Making user patches globally available Ryan Hill
2012-04-15  8:35 ` Zac Medico
2012-04-15  9:03   ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2012-04-15  9:12     ` Zac Medico
2012-04-15 13:46     ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-04-23  5:04     ` Steven J Long
2012-04-23  5:56       ` Zac Medico
2012-04-28  0:28         ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J Long
2012-04-18 16:59   ` [gentoo-dev] " Jeroen Roovers
2012-04-18 17:39     ` Mike Frysinger
2012-04-18 17:41       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-04-18 18:20         ` Zac Medico
2012-04-18 18:34           ` David Leverton
2012-04-18 19:41             ` Zac Medico
2012-04-18 19:47               ` Michał Górny
2012-04-18 21:41               ` David Leverton
2012-04-26  4:44                 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2012-04-26  5:03                   ` Zac Medico [this message]
2012-04-26  6:09                     ` Ryan Hill
2012-04-26  6:18                   ` Duncan
2012-04-26  6:26                     ` Zac Medico
2012-04-26  9:55                       ` Duncan
2012-04-26 15:21                         ` Zac Medico
2012-04-26 22:08                           ` Duncan
2012-04-27  1:41                             ` Zac Medico
2012-04-27 14:15                               ` Duncan
2012-04-27 14:20                                 ` Michał Górny
2012-04-27 17:19                                   ` Zac Medico
2012-04-27 18:01                                     ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-04-27 18:10                                       ` Zac Medico
2012-04-27 18:42                                       ` Alec Warner
2012-04-27 18:57                                       ` Michał Górny
2012-04-27 19:26                                         ` Zac Medico
2012-04-27 19:26                                       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-04-27 19:43                                         ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-04-27 19:58                                           ` Michał Górny
2012-04-27 20:12                                             ` EAPI 5 (Was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available) Ciaran McCreesh
2012-04-28  8:40                                               ` Pacho Ramos
2012-04-28  8:52                                               ` Michał Górny
2012-04-28  9:34                                                 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-04-28 10:09                                                   ` Francesco Riosa
2012-04-28 15:16                                                     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-04-27 14:27                                 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available Ciaran McCreesh
2012-04-27 15:41                                   ` Zac Medico
2012-04-27 15:45                                     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-04-27 15:55                                       ` Zac Medico
2012-04-27 16:00                                         ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-04-27 16:08                                           ` Zac Medico
2012-04-27 16:11                                             ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-04-27 16:19                                               ` Zac Medico
2012-04-27 15:55                                 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2012-04-28  2:29                                   ` Duncan
2012-04-26 18:27                     ` Michał Górny
2012-04-26 18:43                       ` Zac Medico
2012-04-26 18:50                         ` Michał Górny
2012-04-26 18:55                           ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-04-15  8:53 ` [gentoo-dev] " Patrick Lauer
2012-04-15  9:18   ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2012-04-15  9:25   ` [gentoo-dev] " Sergei Trofimovich
2012-04-15 23:34     ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2012-04-15 11:00 ` [gentoo-dev] " Andreas K. Huettel
2012-04-15 13:55   ` Michał Górny
2012-04-15 22:19     ` William Hubbs
2012-04-16  8:12       ` Michał Górny
2012-04-15 14:01 ` Michał Górny
2012-04-15 16:25 ` Mike Frysinger

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