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From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Need ebuild no longer in Portage
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 11:01:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49bf44f10801041101y1513bafey369d626dc0a603c1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080104194623.f4475819.i92guboj@terra.es>

> >  *   nvidia missing in FILESDIR
> >
> > Can anyone tell what happened?
> >
> You probably copied the ebuild, but not the contents of the files/
> subdirectory. It probably needs some patch that lived there. So you
> need to copy that directory along with its contents to the same place
> you copied the old ebuild.

That was it, thank you.

Does anyone know if there is a way to prevent eclean from removing a
distfile for an installed package.  Seems like that should be default
behavior.

- Grant

> Jesús Guerrero <i92guboj@terra.es>
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-04 19:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-04  6:22 [gentoo-user] Need ebuild no longer in Portage Grant
2008-01-04  6:29 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-01-04  6:57   ` William Kenworthy
2008-01-04 15:58     ` Grant
2008-01-04 18:46       ` Jesús Guerrero
2008-01-04 19:01         ` Grant [this message]
2008-01-04 19:10           ` Grant
2008-01-04 21:04             ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2008-01-04 22:39               ` Grant
2008-01-04 22:54                 ` Grant Edwards
2008-01-04 23:42                   ` Dale
2008-01-04 23:53                   ` Grant
2008-01-04 23:57                   ` Grant
2008-01-05  2:04           ` [gentoo-user] " Renat Golubchyk
2008-01-05  9:11             ` Alan McKinnon

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