On Tuesday 30 March 2010 01:57:05 dan blum wrote: > If one tries to modify the ebuild and test a change, the system issues a > file size error. How do you get around that?
ebuild /path/to/ebuild/file.ebuild manifest explanation: man ebuild However, your next --sync will revert your change. Copy the ebuild to your private overlay and modify it there to preserve your changes. More details: portage documentation gotten via: equery files portage | grep man > > --- On Mon, 3/29/10, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Date: Monday, March 29, 2010, 11:11 AM > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:11 AM, > > Stroller > > <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> > > > > wrote: > > > On 29 Mar 2010, at 13:22, Dale wrote: > > >>> ... > > >>> Filling bug reports is important. I filled > > > > over 50 on b.g.o this year > > > > >>> alone. All of them are version bumps or bad > > > > homepages. Some programs haven't > > > > >>> been bumped for 5 years. > > >> > > >> That is true but I don't have a account > > > > there. Someone else does so they > > > > >> filed it for me. I don't guess it matters > > > > who files it as long as it is > > > > >> filed. > > > > > > It's helpful if you can subscribe to email updates, > > > > and help test when > > > > > revisions are available. > > > > > > Sometimes an ebuild is posted to as an attachment to > > > > the bug - you download > > > > > it and add it to your local overlay. Thus you may get > > > > the updated version > > > > > before it's available in the Portage tree (some > > > > ebuilds are attached to bugs > > > > > for packages which never become accepted) and you can > > > > at least add a "works > > > > > for me" comment and encourage the devs by remarking > > > > how useful it is to you. > > > > And even if you've got nothing new to contribute to the > > problem, you > > can vote for bugs that are important to you. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
