Localpatch
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Installation
localpatch is no longer part of portage. You need to install foobashrc:
# emerge app-portage/foobashrc
This will install the script foobashrc.bashrc at /etc/portage/. It is intended to be used in the emerge process through /etc/portage/bashrc (see Hooking In the Emerge Process (Gentoo Manual)). If you do not have your own bashrc yet, you can just link it to foobashrc.bashrc:
# ln -s /etc/portage/foobashrc.bashrc /etc/portage/bashrc
To complete the installation you need to add
foobashrc_modules = "localpatch"
to your make.conf. By un-/commenting this line you can easily activate/deactivate localepatch.
How it works
By default, localpatch will look into /etc/portage/localpatches in order to search for patches. This can be changed by setting LOCALPATCH_OVERLAY variable within make.conf.
The actual patches for a package are placed in subdirectories with one of the following naming shemata:
- ${CATEGORY}/${PN}-${PV}-${PR} - example 'app-foo/bar-1.0-r1'
- ${CATEGORY}/${PN}-${PV} - example 'app-foo/bar-1.0'
- ${CATEGORY}/${PN} - example 'app-foo/bar'
Only the patches within the first matching shema are used and are applied within numerical order.
See Also
Localpatch_(Tutorial)
http://forums.funtoo.org/viewtopic.php?id=193
