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 1PtG7P-0003Rj-Kb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 09:07:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3D5581C06A for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 09:07:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f41.google.com (mail-ww0-f41.google.com [74.125.82.41]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 598A91C02A for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 08:27:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb29 with SMTP id 29so128931wwb.4 for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:27:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent :references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=ccMQOzNOPsyp3eEM24RSBcWcKyOPNc9sDmpS5DE5+S4=; b=aKUJXYcZuDFzyC4LFZS/7s8NJeh2TNsSyYCxE4KcNvzur5udmnqC6gY2hs17Ue1wHo ffa3kIhTzNyyQ/6XFIYSOXQdIdKZ2IkF76LDrZFkMfilVkz7vJAGoRpqaITPVZR2u5Ro 6RVzyeu8QkUzpd5esa3/6SRx939WovcilynLk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=n1rm2fdXa9b/4QpslYshCkiaZKv/Pm/YigUPfB1DOMHfVSSd6Fpp8x0iVIxCo62F5K J0l7Efm+o2hNaWjc4CmNpiPeWoPP/7mUzeIwMkEac3ppDWfiucrHYqRKZneglEYju0PC 0TdzLKrwbbWJM7DO1OjvZigO2sjxDy16DITBs= Received: by 10.216.25.210 with SMTP id z60mr243972wez.104.1298708871491; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:27:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n52sm661975wer.0.2011.02.26.00.27.49 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:27:50 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild hacking howto Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 08:28:02 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1913693.qn1F8s6BTA"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201102260828.05801.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d98bbd42ec3ad60ea16fcce66140f942 --nextPart1913693.qn1F8s6BTA Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Saturday 26 February 2011 00:43:43 Mark Shields wrote: > Saw that you linked to the "creating an updated ebuild" from gentoo-wiki, >=20 > so what I say may overlay quite a bit, but hear me out: >=20 > It depends on how the ebuild is built. If it references the version by t= he > ebuild file name, which is very common, you can create an overlay for the > ebuild, copy the ebuild to it, rename the ebuild file to have the new > version number as part of it, digest the ebuild, make sure the overlay is > listed in your make.conf file, then try to emerge it. I did this with > Webmin. Yes, I know it's masked and new versions have effectively been > dropped from portage; but I use it, and it worked fine. Not related to the OP's question, but couldn't stop myself from asking: Why is/was webmin dropped from portage? I saw bug 348432 for webmin-1.530, but other than offering an ebuild it did= n't=20 say.=20 =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1913693.qn1F8s6BTA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk1ouZUACgkQVTDTR3kpaLZApACghaIok2JPJSOzmkaHfnW52UIr iH8AoNjTdeRJwxeuQoR1lAWyfB1iQM1j =Sp4e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1913693.qn1F8s6BTA--