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On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Harry Putnam<reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Harry Putnam<reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes... except _OH CRAP_ I've forgotten whatever little tiny skill I once
>>> had to add a patch into the emerge process manually.
>>
>> man ebuild
>>
>> HTH :)
>
> Doesn't any manual patching have to be done in an overlay?  My own
> portage setup.  Then stepped thru with ebuild to get it accepted by
> emerge?
>
> I see no hits at all on either `overlay' or `layman' in man ebuild.
> There must be more to the story than just running ebuild commands. And
> expect the modified ebuild to be accepted by emerge.

Sorry, I was thinking you would apply the patch manually as a
one-off... which you could do by unpacking using the ebuild command,
applying patch, then compiling/merging it. If you want to make your
own ebuild then yes you'd most likely want to put it in an overlay.