From: darren kirby <bulliver@badcomputer.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to get source of emerge to patch?
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 01:48:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607120148.19114.bulliver@badcomputer.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060712044605.81716.qmail@web55911.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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quoth the Jim John:
> Hi. I want to patch cyrus-imapd. I have the diff file, but no source
> because I emerged from the repository. How do I get the source and ebuild
> it? Thanks.
>
If you emerged cyrus-imapd then the source will be in /usr/portage/distfiles.
After patching you will have to recalculate the package digest (ie: the
md5sum) or portage will refuse to install the new version. I cannot recall
the exact command for this ATM but it is in the ebuild guide along with all
the other gentoo docs...
-d
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2006-07-12 4:46 [gentoo-user] How to get source of emerge to patch? Jim John
2006-07-12 8:46 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-07-12 8:48 ` darren kirby [this message]
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