On Saturday 26 February 2011 00:43:43 Mark Shields wrote: > Saw that you linked to the "creating an updated ebuild" from gentoo-wiki, > > so what I say may overlay quite a bit, but hear me out: > > It depends on how the ebuild is built. If it references the version by the > ebuild file name, which is very common, you can create an overlay for the > ebuild, copy the ebuild to it, rename the ebuild file to have the new > version number as part of it, digest the ebuild, make sure the overlay is > listed in your make.conf file, then try to emerge it. I did this with > Webmin. Yes, I know it's masked and new versions have effectively been > dropped from portage; but I use it, and it worked fine.
Not related to the OP's question, but couldn't stop myself from asking: Why is/was webmin dropped from portage? I saw bug 348432 for webmin-1.530, but other than offering an ebuild it didn't say. -- Regards, Mick
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