From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L1sjU-0006mO-Ap for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:16:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 453D0E0269; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:16:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21376E0269 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:16:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F6AD64A8F for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:16:49 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.493 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.493 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.106, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id jbIL5CIa1Npb for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:16:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63D9964A7D for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:16:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1L1sjF-0008QM-Vu for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:16:37 +0000 Received: from c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.6]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:16:37 +0000 Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:16:37 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] Nots and bolts of creating an ebuild Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:16:26 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87zljz40et.fsf@newsguy.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:CUFdkGQWYKkEBC1t0wszeLsxqmI= Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: b1c32fe9-bd55-4f5a-a463-bcc4c171e7ab X-Archives-Hash: 6d37692ce7753df368e6590cace0bc83 After looking at: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=1#doc_chap2 [ Ebuild HOWTO ] Reading only partially so far but this looks really complicated. I thought I remembered a more nuts and bolts howto somewhere more appropriate for someone getting started who is ..er intellectually challenged. I really just want to add an epatch line to an existing ebuild but it appears some protocols need to be followed to generate the manifest and probably lots of other stuff. Can anyone point me to something? I've see it said here a few times that creating an overlay and a custom ebuild is `easy' but I suspect that only applies if you already know how its done.