gentoo nvidia ebuilds?

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 07:49 -0700, Net Llama! wrote:

> Tell you what.  If you can point me to step-by-step instructions on how 
> to create an ebuild, i'll see what i can do to create an 'unofficial' 
> nvidia driver ebuild.

The HOWTO is:

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=1

I would imagine that you could take an existing one and make
modifications from there. I have done this for some packages I just
could not wait for. It is sort of like an RPM spec file with sections
for the various things that may need to be done.

After making your mods, use the 'digest' command so that MD5 sums for
the various files you are using can be done. This includes the
driver .gz file. Gentoo is picky about these things. The digest command
sorts all this out and complains if something is not found.

I see that the nvidia ebuilds are a bit involved. Most other ebuilds are
rather simple. Depends on the package and what the package's own install
does and what it leaves to the user.

Your own copies go in /usr/local/portage, which is layed out just
like /usr/portage - except the stuff in /usr/local/portage will not be
clobbered next time you sync.