[mythtv-users] Gentoo builds - broken-er

[Mike Perkins]

On 19/02/12 23:37, Dale Pontius wrote:
> On 02/19/2012 06:23 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> On 2/19/2012 17:46, Dale Pontius wrote:
>>> A clue dawns... In mythtv_portage/Gentoo in addition to the ebuilds
>>> there are "profiles", "scripts", and "eclass" directories.  I'll be that
>>> there's some path-relative magic happening here, grabbing stuff out of
>>> the profiles, scripts and ebuilds directories.
>>>
>>> That's it.  I just edited the mythtv ebuild in-place instead of copying
>>> it to my own overlay.  The digest worked, and I now have a manifest.
>>
>> All the code to determine where to download the tarballs from is
>> contained within those eclasses, using the four static defines at the
>> top of the ebuilds.  The ebuilds won't work when used with a different
>> set of eclasses.  The profiles are currently unused, and scripts holds
>> the tools to automatically generate a new set of ebuilds.
>>
> I don't usually like to make my updates to the original, I prefer to
> copy it to my own space and make changes there, leaving the original
> intact.  That doesn't work in this case, obviously.
>
For values of 'copy'. Why didn't you cp -R the whole tree? Then you'd have 
pulled in the other info. Or is this in a separate part of the tree space?

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Mike Perkins