From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:48:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120217094841.1a828f55@khamul.example.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F3DFF85.4040001@st.com>
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:19:33 +0100
Raffaele BELARDI <raffaele.belardi@st.com> wrote:
> On 02/16/2012 09:16 AM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote:
> > On 16.02.2012 08:58, Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
> >> I suppose that my only options for rebuilding mythtv are to wait
> >> for upstream to update the ebuild or to update it myself. How
> >> difficult would the latter be?
> >
> > If the package just moved from media-tv to virtual it's easy:
> >
> > You should make a private overlay and copy the ebuild with the
> > dependency there:
>
> I went for a simpler route to just edit the ebuild and rebuild the
> manifest.
>
> raf
Your changes will be overwritten and reverted next time you resync the
portage tree and every time thereafter.
Editing the ebuild is not the simplest route, it is a vastly more
complex route. Instead, put the ebuild in the local overlay where
portage knows not to touch it. A local overlay does not require layman.
--
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-17 7:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-16 7:58 [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay Raffaele BELARDI
2012-02-16 8:16 ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
2012-02-16 8:33 ` Raffaele BELARDI
2012-02-16 8:51 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-17 7:19 ` Raffaele BELARDI
2012-02-17 7:48 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2012-02-17 8:01 ` Raffaele BELARDI
2012-02-17 10:18 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-17 10:39 ` Raffaele BELARDI
2012-02-17 10:59 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-17 13:12 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-17 14:50 ` Raffaele BELARDI
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