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Bug 49216 - script call from emerge
Summary: script call from emerge
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Enhancement/Feature Requests (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2004-04-27 15:20 UTC by norbert kamenicky
Modified: 2006-01-02 20:46 UTC (History)
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Description norbert kamenicky 2004-04-27 15:20:06 UTC 
Sometimes I have to modify ebuild (add patches, change behavior, etc.).
Sometimes it is necessary to set extra variable(s) to emerge some package (alsa-driver, xfree-drm ...)

To solve such tasks (an probable much more) it would be fine if emerge is able to call an user script before emerge of a package (if it exists).

I propose to add new configuration file "/etc/portage/packages.conf",
which will specify a script to run for some packages immediately before emerge.

Here is an example how the content can look:

# cat /etc/portage/package.conf
>=media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.3 alsa.new
<media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.3  alsa.old

Scripts alsa.new and alsa.old will be in new directory /etc/portage/make.dir



Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Brian Harring (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-08-04 21:35:03 UTC 
Marking this for later.  Generate some noise on this bug if you're *really* after it still.
Comment 2 Alec Warner (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2006-01-02 20:46:27 UTC 
bashrc + hooks
Comment 3 Alec Warner (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2006-01-02 20:46:46 UTC 
released in 2.1_pre1