From: "Anthony E. Caudel" <acaudel@gt.rr.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Manually compiling a gentoo package
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 01:16:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4472A8BC.9000700@gt.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7573e9640605222153w52eafd87sc76bae426c332fea@mail.gmail.com>
Richard Fish wrote:
> On 5/22/06, Anthony E. Caudel <acaudel@gt.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> I need to make a change in the code for a gentoo package (pgcalc2) to
>> check whether it corrects a problem. If I simply download it with
>> emerge -f pgcalc2, make the correction and then try to finish the
>> emerge, it will fail the md5 check.
>>
>> How can I do this?
>
>
> Assuming you have a fairly standard setup:
>
> ebuild /usr/portage/sci-calculators/pgcalc2/pgcalc2-2.2.4.ebuild unpack
> <make change in /var/tmp/portage/pgcalc2-2.2.4/work>
> ebuild /usr/portage/sci-calculators/pgcalc2/pgcalc2-2.2.4.ebuild compile
> ebuild /usr/portage/sci-calculators/pgcalc2/pgcalc2-2.2.4.ebuild install
>
> See "man ebuild".
>
> -Richard
>
Thanks, Richard. Those steps did the trick. And the author's
correction fixed the problem also.
So, with a final "ebuild ... qmerge", I have a working pgcalc2.
Tony
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-23 4:17 [gentoo-user] Manually compiling a gentoo package Anthony E. Caudel
2006-05-23 4:48 ` Matthew Cline
2006-05-23 4:53 ` Richard Fish
2006-05-23 6:16 ` Anthony E. Caudel [this message]
2006-05-23 8:21 ` Richard Fish
2006-05-24 3:22 ` Anthony E. Caudel
2006-05-26 15:48 ` Anthony E. Caudel
2006-05-23 5:20 ` Shaochun Wang
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