Thank you! That worked!!! Massimiliano
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org> wrote: > Massimiliano Ziccardi writes: > > > I'm trying to apply the workaround suggested in the BUG at > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268285 > > > > I've changed the file accordingly, however, everytime I emerge mkinitrd, > > the file (obviously) get overwritten. > > > > I tried to search, but didn't find anything... > > > > Is there an emerge flag to instruct emerge to compile what it finds in > > /var instead of downloading it? > > To try it out once, you can do it like this: > > ebuild /usr/portage/sys-apps/mkinitrd/mkinitrd-3.5.7-r3.ebuild unpack > change things in /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/mkinitrd-3.5.7-r3 > ebuild /usr/portage/sys-apps/mkinitrd/mkinitrd-3.5.7-r3.ebuild merge > > The cleaner way would be to modify the ebuild and put it into your overlay > (along with the modified mkinitrd-3.5.7-dietssp.patch), but on the other > hand the bug might already be fixed anyway when you emerge the package the > next time. > > Wonko > >
