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On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:13:25 -0700 Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > 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:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > You need to specify the ebuild as the second parameter as in the
> > previous steps.
>
> Yes! Just my typing in and forgetting to type that.
>
> Now that you point out the ebuild package merge command, it appears from the
> ebuild man page that maybe the right order for me would be:
>
> ebuild package fetch
> ebuild package unpack
>
> do my edits
>
> ebuild package compile
> ebuild package install
> ebuild package qmerge
>
> This seems to be what the ebuild merge option is doing. Maybe you are
> suggestion that I can still use ebuild merge after the edits, which would
> possibly start from the compile step and go forward, but I'm hesitant to
> trust that with my limited knowledge of these tools and how to check things
> out. I'll give this a try.
>
> Thanks very much!
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
>
> > And note that install will do the "make install" step
> > (or whatever the package uses to install) in $DESTDIR, which is at
> > /var/tmp/portage/<package>/image. To really install the package you need
> > the merge step for ebuild, as in "ebuild <package.ebuild> merge", this
> > will copy the content of $DESTDIR to the live filesystem.
> >
> > Marius
> >
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