Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Error emergin mkinitrd

[Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>]

Massimiliano Ziccardi writes:

> I'm trying to apply the workaround suggested in the BUG at
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268285
>
> I've changed the file accordingly, however, everytime I emerge mkinitrd,
> the file (obviously) get overwritten.
>
> I tried to search, but didn't find anything...
>
> Is there an emerge flag to instruct emerge to compile what it finds in
> /var instead of downloading it?

To try it out once, you can do it like this:

ebuild /usr/portage/sys-apps/mkinitrd/mkinitrd-3.5.7-r3.ebuild unpack
change things in /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/mkinitrd-3.5.7-r3
ebuild /usr/portage/sys-apps/mkinitrd/mkinitrd-3.5.7-r3.ebuild merge

The cleaner way would be to modify the ebuild and put it into your overlay 
(along with the modified mkinitrd-3.5.7-dietssp.patch), but on the other 
hand the bug might already be fixed anyway when you emerge the package the 
next time.

	Wonko