On Sun, 17 May 2009 09:42:20 +0100
Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> I think you can redefine ebuild functions
> in /etc/portage/env/cat/pkg, so you could out a custom src_unpack()
> in there. It should work if the ebuild has no src_unoack, so you
> could do something like
>
> src_unpack() {
> unpack ${A}
> epatch mypatch
> }
>
> I don't know how this would work with an existing src_unpack in the
> ebuild, if you copied the existing function and added your patch.
I use /etc/portage/bashrc for the same purpose. For instance, this is a
patch I'm tacking onto portage ATM:
if [[ ${CATEGORY}/${PN} == sys-apps/portage ]]
then
post_src_unpack() {
cd "${S}"/bin
epatch "/etc/portage/patches/misc-functions.patch"
}
fi
As you can see, there are post_ and pre_ phases for all phase functions
which can be used to do fancy stuff like this.
I prefer /etc/portage/bashrc for this, since these hacks are usually
only needed for a short time, so having them all in one place for an
easy overview helps to keep the cruft down.
/loki_val
