Re: [gentoo-user] Same version in portage and overlay, how to mask?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 31 March 2009 21:57:02 Daniel Pielmeier wrote:

> > So how can I mask just a specific ebuild from a specific overlay?
>
> This is not possible with current portage. I think with paludis you can
> mask packages based on repositories, don't know about pkgcore though.

That's what I thought

> You should be able to work around this by doing something like this in
> /etc/make.conf
>
> PORTDIR="/your/port/dir"
> PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/your/overlays $PORTDIR"
>
> This way portage prefers the the packages from the portage tree over
> packages with equal versions in overlays.

Yes, that works. Thanks for the pointer.

It had never occurred to me to include PORTDIR in PORTDIR_OVERLAY :-)

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