On Sunday 12 July 2009 14:59:33 Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I am not at all competent at modifying ebuilds. I am trying to emerge an > ebuild locally for testing and I have two problems straight off the mark. > > a)How should I specify the URI for the source file if it is already copied > into my /usr/portage/distfiles?
Just list it as usual. portage will see that it is already there and not re- download it. > b)Trying to create a manifest gives me errors: > ============================================================ > # ebuild rtmpdump-1.2.ebuild manifest > /usr/local/portage/media-libs/rtmpdump/rtmpdump-1.2.ebuild: line 34: > unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"' You have an odd number of double quotes in that ebuild. Or, you are using quotes literally and did not quote your quotes. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
