Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage question

[Mikael Hallendal <hallski@gentoo.org>]

Den 25 Aug 2001 21:54:57 +0100 skrev Christopher Burgess:
> How do I emerge a package, but before it's built apply my own patches to the
> source?
> e.g. use emerge to download the source, unpack it etc - stop it here, do my
> own mods to the source - then let emerge build and install it.
> 
> The main reason is that I am having some problems with xfree4.1.0 locking up
> on with my radeon card (on startx it just locks up and sends the monitor
> into power save mode) unless I use the "noaccel" option which is horribly
> slow and I don't get DRI with that. I have searched the xfree mailing lists
> and found a small hand patch which might fix it, but rather than downloading
> it manually (the xfree source) I'd rather use emerge. However to be able to
> do this on other packages (modifying the source before emerge builds) would
> be useful.
> Also is there anyone else having a Radeon problem with xfree?

Hi!

You can do this by:

ebuild package.ebuild unpack
apply your changes
ebuild package.ebuild qmerge

If this is a patch that others would have need of (and it doesn't break
anything for folks with other graphic cards) we should consider adding
it by default.

Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

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Mikael Hallendal
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Leader
CodeFactory AB, Stockholm, Sweden