Re: [gentoo-user] Nots and bolts of creating an ebuild

2008-11-17 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/11/17 Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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? Create an overlay and within that use

Re: [gentoo-user] Nots and bolts of creating an ebuild

2008-11-16 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:16:26 -0600 Harry Putnam wrote: > 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 bolt

[gentoo-user] Nots and bolts of creating an ebuild

2008-11-16 Thread Harry Putnam
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