Hi! I have some idea on extending portage building system (ebuild?). Sometimes I'm (for example) want to apply custom patch to some package. This patch can do something unusual, that can not be accepted by maintainers and I know this. But I like features in my patch and want it to apply automatically when updating the package. Not to do it like this: $ ebuild /usr/portage/pkg-categoty/some-package/some-package-1.0 unpack $ cd /var/tmp/portage/pkg-categoty/some-package/work/... $ patch -p1 < ~/my-patch-for-some-package $ cd $ ebuild /usr/portage/pkg-categoty/some-package/some-package-1.0 merge
It is lot of manual work. The idea is having an file, for example /etc/portage/package.patch with contents like this: =pkg-category/some-package-1* /path/to/my-patch-for-some-package Of course, patches could fail in newer versions. But when I'll use that feature - I'll understand why it can be and it'll be more convenient to maintain it. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
