Re: Modifiy the source?

Matthew Kennedy <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.newbies
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Klaus Imgrund <[email protected]> writes:

> Hello,
> 
> I did read thru the portage manual and my memory is failing me,too.  I
> will install gentoo in the next couple of days again (HD died on me -
> who needs backups anyway?).  The thing is that I would like to put a
> couple of different drivers in xfree and the kernel that are not
> available otherwise.  Now if I remember right portage gets the tarball
> untars it and compiles it.  I do know how to just d/l the tarball but
> is there any way that I can put different drivers into the kernel and
> xfree after decompressing before it gets compiled?
> 


You need only to append what you need to do to src_unpack()

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Matthew Kennedy
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