Thank you! That worked!!!

Massimiliano

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org> wrote:

> 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
>
>