On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Harry Putnam<rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Harry Putnam<rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: >>> >>> Yes... except _OH CRAP_ I've forgotten whatever little tiny skill I once >>> had to add a patch into the emerge process manually. >> >> man ebuild >> >> HTH :) > > Doesn't any manual patching have to be done in an overlay? My own > portage setup. Then stepped thru with ebuild to get it accepted by > emerge? > > I see no hits at all on either `overlay' or `layman' in man ebuild. > There must be more to the story than just running ebuild commands. And > expect the modified ebuild to be accepted by emerge.
Sorry, I was thinking you would apply the patch manually as a one-off... which you could do by unpacking using the ebuild command, applying patch, then compiling/merging it. If you want to make your own ebuild then yes you'd most likely want to put it in an overlay.
