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From: Christian Bricart <christian@bricart.de>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] about modifying an ebuild in local overlay and $FILESDIR
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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 22:03:24 +0200
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Hi all,

from time to time, I need to make (and maintain) modifications to an
ebuild from the main tree in my local overlay.
So basically, I create the directory structure from
/usr/portage/<category>/<package>/ under
/usr/local/portage/<category>/<package>/, copy over the ebuild and do my
modifications in the ebuild.
So far how an overlay works ;-)

But if there are references to patches, init-scripts, conf-files, etc
from $FILESDIR w/i the original ebuild, one also needs to copy those
into /usr/local/portage/../../files/ ..

Is it possible to "overlay" such files used in epatch(), newins(),
newconfd(), newinitd(), etc too..?

so i.e:
FILESDIR = "${repository_location}/${CATEGORY}/${PN}/files"
should support a fallback to:
FILESDIR = "${PORTDIR}/${CATEGORY}/${PN}/files"
if not found...
(or actually to the defined $master from the repo used)

Christian