Hi, I had asked this about 6 weeks ago, but seem to have misplaced my notes and I'm not finding it in the archives. I'm getting some strange results today. Maybe someone can see what I'm doing wrong. Thanks in advance, and sorry for asking twice.
I have need once in a while to patch code that emerge won't download itself. (New CVS from developers) To accomplish this I've been running the following set of tasks ebuild package fetch ebuild package unpack ebuild package clean (possibly not required, or wrong?) At this point I do the patches or substitute files as required by the developers, then... ebuild compile ebuild install Does this look correct? I had sort of pieced this back together from man ebuild, but I've had a couple of issues over the last few days: 1) It seems that for code that's already on my system, if I attempt the patches and compile/install, ebuild often tells me that 'it appears the package is already compiled'. I can get around this (I think!) using all 5 steps, but I do not think the original instructions required me to do this, and logically why should I keep fetching the same things over again? 2) Specifically WRT to the alsa-driver packages, and looking in /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r2/dernel/sound, I seem to have some old *.o files from June, indicating the install step was not doing what I thought it should, which would be to install today's version. However, I'm starting to get confused, so maybe I'm doing some other stupid thing... Thanks in advance for helping me straighten this out. Cheers, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
