Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Does anyone think that a mechanism of applying patches to a package
> without the need to modify the ebuild of that package would be a
> useful feature? There are cases of useful patches that are not
> accepted by the maintainers of the ebuild (because they have not been
> accepted upstream or other reasons), forcing users to copy ebuilds in
> their overlay and modifying the ebuild there. This turns out to be a
> hassle every time the package receives an update.
>
> What if we could just specify patches to be applied in, say,
> /etc/portage/packages.patch with something like:
>
> media-video/smplayer j-random-hack.patch
>
> and portage would apply that patch automatically? That way, the
> hassle of updating the ebuild of a package in which I use custom
> patches would go away. The patches could be searched for in a
> designated directory, in this example maybe
> /var/portage/patches/media-video/smplayer (or something else entirely.)
>
> Can someone think of a way to set up something like this?
>
>
Patches are already stored in a files directory. For instance, it would
be /var/portage/media-video/smplayer/files in your example. Maybe I'm
missing some point you were trying to make.
