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From: "Eray Aslan" <eray.aslan@caf.com.tr>
To: <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Out of portage
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:23:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FE82EE778704E4D9D31E9CE0BEC14650D2C72@caf02.caf.local> (raw)

Renat Golubchyk <mailto:ragermany@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> You can copy the ebuild to your overlay and patch postfix from there.
> If you don't have to do anything else before compiling it then it's as
> trivial as "epatch /path/to/postfix.patch" somewhere in src_unpack().
> Doing it this way has the benefit of letting portage manage your
> packages. 

This seems to be the best way.  And indeed it is trivial.

> You'll just have to keep an eye for upgrades, because they
> will probably come without this patch. If you want this patch to be
> included in postfix create a bug in bugzilla with the request.

I don't think it is a good idea.  I would not second guess Wietse (author of postfix) for the suitability of the patch for general consumption.

Thank you for your help.

Eray

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             reply	other threads:[~2005-11-09  8:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-09  8:23 Eray Aslan [this message]
2005-11-09  8:57 ` [gentoo-user] Out of portage Neil Bothwick
2005-11-09  8:59 ` Renat Golubchyk
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-11-08 18:03 Eray Aslan
2005-11-08 18:29 ` Renat Golubchyk
2005-11-08  9:37 Eray Aslan
2005-11-08 16:37 ` Renat Golubchyk

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