Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild with local source?

["Arttu V." <arttuv69@gmail.com>]

Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On 08/24/10 19:17:05, Arttu V. wrote:
>> On 8/24/10, Helmut Jarausch<jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>  wrote:
>>> On 08/24/10 13:45:05, Robin Atwood wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday 24 August 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd like to create an ebuild (in my local overlay) which refers
>> to
>>>> a
>>>>> local distribution file.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've tried
>>>>>
>>>>> SRC_URI="file::///usr/local/Src/MyPack.tar.bz2"
>>>>>
>>>>> but "file://" doesn't seem to be supported.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there any alternative?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for a hint,
>>>>> Helmut.
>>>>>
>>>>> (I'm using portage-2.2._rc68)
>>>>
>>>> "ln -s /usr/local/Src/MyPack.tar.bz2 /usr/portage/distfiles"
>> maybe?
>>>>
>>>> HTH
>>>> -Robin
>>>
>>> Hi, but what do I specify for SRC_URI
>>>
>>> I've tried
>>> SRC="MyPack-1.0.7.tar.gz"
>>> SLOT="0"
>>> KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 mips ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc
>> x86"
>>> IUSE=""
>>> S="$WORKDIR/${P}"
>>> src_unpack() {
>>> 	unpack "${A}"
>>> }
>>>
>>> But it fails saying "nothing specified for unpack"
>>> And, indeed,
>>> doing
>>> ebuild --debug<PATH_to_EBUILD>  unpack
>>> shows that ${A} is the empty string.
>>>
>>> What am I missing?
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot, it drives me nuts,
>>> Helmut.
>>
>> Place a RESTRICT="fetch" in the ebuild, and copy the tarball manually
>> to distfiles dir.
>
> Unfortunately, now I get MyPack-1.0.7.tar.gz does not exist (though it
> is in /usr/portage/distfiles)

AFAIK there is no variable SRC that ebuild/portage would know of, but 
there is SRC_URI. Change to that and try to check for other similar, but 
hard to notice problems in the ebuild.

-- 
Arttu V. -- Running Gentoo is like running with scissors