On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 2:30 PM, James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > > So, since I'm only hacking at ebuilds for my own needs (currently > not able to produce anything that is not embarrashing) can I > start building ebuilds that use EAPI-6? I understand that it > is not finalized yet. But, if the user supplied patching is > at least workable, I'd rather get busy learning/testing those new > EAPI-6 tricks. >
User patching already exists, but ebuilds have to support it for it to work by calling epatch_user during src_prepare(). EAPI6 will make calling this mandatory, and will put it in the default phase function. So, 100% of EAPI6 ebuilds will support it, though many ebuilds already support it otherwise. All you need to do is add epatch_user to src_prepare in an existing ebuild to use it. If you want to patch the build system you'll also need to make calls to autotools/etc as needed after calling epatch_user. -- Rich
