From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NwPuf-0003ev-4W for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:06:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE006E0CA1 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:06:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f219.google.com (mail-bw0-f219.google.com [209.85.218.219]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C015AE0BDF for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:13:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz19 with SMTP id 19so170474bwz.26 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:13:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=IXkncUsMhBoNzXEh4E2nUNl2OnIg2cQNUKXmClb3YUw=; b=u7JE+s/4mwhrtq0DLSlgda13tTLH3Kh5BjJZAyigIk0+P067bFb1W5SX+EXiZMIcpw dX9ogUHJUWt9/wFJWeajyZCqrtoczfxc8f7F2Chm8Nl4q6vaitf8XTpgmbDsN6YQ6XyW exNovTHZ4GoUevdre+gnOEFdqgmmg4SN0lX8I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=syWIGJlPMj8P1muNlSOy8SKbh6aG1mOaY4f529qAGX0XlRKAjfRW0xu2qoMnjrMfcK rdz1rCWjmoNLU98Ob9yiyW2T3KyLkhjgdbDVh/Hcae5tMqMY6IiuWvSos5GGJQo70mXG OY41aBSCTcUagdUi5GI8l6rGEW+UKC8J+ATmI= Received: by 10.204.81.145 with SMTP id x17mr581869bkk.31.1269908038865; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:13:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-2-122.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.2.122]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s17sm42580210bkd.10.2010.03.29.17.13.50 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:13:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 02:10:33 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.1 (Linux/2.6.33-zen1; KDE/4.4.1; x86_64; ; ) Cc: dan blum References: <712583.69608.qm@web45406.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <712583.69608.qm@web45406.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201003300210.33887.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 725dc597-19a1-49d3-8290-54ab88eb44a3 X-Archives-Hash: 3c52ea5d72db8c08759cf98d29021b79 On Tuesday 30 March 2010 01:57:05 dan blum wrote: > If one tries to modify the ebuild and test a change, the system issues a > file size error. How do you get around that? ebuild /path/to/ebuild/file.ebuild manifest explanation: man ebuild However, your next --sync will revert your change. Copy the ebuild to your private overlay and modify it there to preserve your changes. More details: portage documentation gotten via: equery files portage | grep man > > --- On Mon, 3/29/10, Paul Hartman wrote: > > From: Paul Hartman > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Date: Monday, March 29, 2010, 11:11 AM > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:11 AM, > > Stroller > > > > > > wrote: > > > On 29 Mar 2010, at 13:22, Dale wrote: > > >>> ... > > >>> Filling bug reports is important. I filled > > > > over 50 on b.g.o this year > > > > >>> alone. All of them are version bumps or bad > > > > homepages. Some programs haven't > > > > >>> been bumped for 5 years. > > >> > > >> That is true but I don't have a account > > > > there. Someone else does so they > > > > >> filed it for me. I don't guess it matters > > > > who files it as long as it is > > > > >> filed. > > > > > > It's helpful if you can subscribe to email updates, > > > > and help test when > > > > > revisions are available. > > > > > > Sometimes an ebuild is posted to as an attachment to > > > > the bug - you download > > > > > it and add it to your local overlay. Thus you may get > > > > the updated version > > > > > before it's available in the Portage tree (some > > > > ebuilds are attached to bugs > > > > > for packages which never become accepted) and you can > > > > at least add a "works > > > > > for me" comment and encourage the devs by remarking > > > > how useful it is to you. > > > > And even if you've got nothing new to contribute to the > > problem, you > > can vote for bugs that are important to you. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com