Tired of injecting things needed by portage (eg. kernel)

Wiebel · Last edited by Wiebel on Tue Apr 06, 2004 10:26 pm; edited 1 time in total

If you download your kernel direktly from kernel.org instead of using portage to get your kernel, you always have to care about the constantly updating of your virtual/kernel.
A simple way to do this is to copy a *-source ebuild to something that isn't in portage.
After that unmerge every installed sources and simply inject your faked coolname-sources. And voila portage will never bug you again by updating stuff.
Of course you need do create a whole directory for the fake-sources so you'll have $PORTDIR_OVERLAY/sys-kernel/homebrew-sources/homebrew-sources-1.0.ebuild

The same scheme should work for other things bugging you out of the virtuals.

Hope it helps someone.

El_Presidente_Pufferfish · Veteran Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1179 Location: Seattle

I might be missing something but if you just use the kernels off kernel.org, why not use vanilla-sources or development-sources, which are just the plain kernels off kernel.org

Kow · Apprentice Joined: 28 Dec 2003 Posts: 227

ebuilds take time.. hour.. or 2..

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nbensa · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 6:23 am Post subject:

Because he uses custom patches... I do.