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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 01:39:54 +0400
From: Vladimir Zhbanov <vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] adding footprints and schematic symbols from CVS
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On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:41:02PM +0400, Vladimir Zhbanov wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:44:49AM -0500, Benjamin L. Naber wrote:
> > Ok,
> > 
> > This whole process of adding footprints is a real pain, and really
> > shouldn't be that much effort involved to add a few or many symbols.

I remembered there was a way for a directory to add all its
subdirectories containing symbols as several gschem libraries
at once. And I've eventually found it! Thanks to Luigi S.
Palese and Peter Brett.

Just add:
  (component-library-search "/home/your_login/gedasymbols/" "gedasymbols/")
to ~/.gEDA/gafrc.

"/home/your_login/gedasymbols/" is the path to your cvs
repository.

The feature has been added in geda-gaf 1.7.2 and it needs to be
better documented somewhere in the gEDA wiki.
One minor defect I found is the procedure doesn't understand
guile environment variables such as "${HOME}". That is why I've
added the full path here.