[gentoo-user] Re: Using portage through NFS

[Chris Lieb <chris.lieb@gmail.com>]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:57:58 -0600, Chris Lieb wrote:
>
>> I don't want to do UnionFS since that requires me to patch the kernel,
>> which is more work than I have the time for.
>
> cd /usr/src/linux
> patch -p1 </path/to/patchfile
>
> You must be *really* short of time ;-)

My concern is more about making my own ebuild (based off of
gentoo-sources) that will patch the kernel source for me so that I can
easily distribute this patched kernel source to all of my computers.  I
need the process to be easy so that whom ever succeeds me doesn't have
to learn much more than just running a couple of scripts that I wrote.
Even how, I catch enough crap from my boss already for spending so much
time tinkering with servers instead of programming :)

A quick look at the gentoo-sources ebuild makes it look like the
patching must be happening in an eclass somewhere, but I'm no bash or
ebuild/eclass guru.  My skills end at fixing dependencies in packages
and doing simple ebuild copy version bumps.

Is there a guide out there for rolling my own kernel ebuild?

Chris

PS. Sorry if this is a double post.  The ml seems to silently reject my
posts that I do through gmane.