From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MFDos-0002hc-LM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:57:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3EB70E06C6; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:57:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D086E06C6 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:57:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB480665EE for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:57:48 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.907 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.907 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.308, 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 2a-ztKV+j8tZ for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:57:41 +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 A9D1B6659E for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:57:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MFDoe-0001cf-Sd for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:57:36 +0000 Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:57:36 +0000 Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:57:36 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Introduce Manual manipulation during an emerge Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:57:38 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: References: 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-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:J1sMDhadqxeAINyrhdvlbdq8//k= Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 628756b8-11f1-40f3-95b1-a9d9771fc576 X-Archives-Hash: b580a3e510a991abb026b314dc2743e8 Stroller writes: > But if you consider it a hassle, just mask the buggy version of > procmail & forget about the problem. Thanks... I thought of something like that but then noticed there's only one version available in portage. At that point I downloaded the previous version *21* tar ball and attempted to build it just manually but hit the same getline problem. (this was outside emerge) The next version back behind 21 is quite old. (I then built an installed version 22* by hand using the sed tools ... more below about that) But can't I do something when the emerge breaks and tells me where the sources are in /var/tmp... can't I go there and finish the build somehow? First the sed run, then ebuild (I know those ebuild commands) and have the finished product installed with emerge? And similarly with CVS. I remember there being some way I could tell emerge to let me set a ./configure flag by hand... then finish the install (with emerge). May have been some flag set right at the emerge cmd like: # SOMEFLAG=something emerge -v cvs Just for information... I have built procmail *22* by hand using the afore mentioned sed command then symlinked /usr/local/bin/procmail to /usr/bin/procmail, where sendmail expects it to be, and so am able to run it fine and get mail working. So not really a big problem... just seems there'd be a fairly easy way to get this done with emerge short of going the personal overlay route. To me... the personal overlay just does not fall under `fairly easy'.