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On 04/30/2013 07:45 PM, François Bissey wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I have at least one ebuild in an overlay that I try to maintain as |
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> prefix friendly as possible. I have discovered that one of the ebuild |
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> we carry has a useflag that is not working properly on macos-x86 |
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> (at least on 10.5.8). So I proceeded to mask it in: |
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> profiles/prefix/darwin/macos/arch/x86/package.use.mask |
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> However once I synced the overlay on my Mac the useflag was still |
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> available for that ebuild. |
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> |
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> Am I doing something wrong or are the overlays not inheriting that part of |
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> the profile? |
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If you do it that way, then the user's profile would have to inherit |
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that profile explicitly from your overlay. Instead, you probably want to |
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use ${repository}/profiles/package.use.mask, which has been supported |
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for nearly 2 years now: |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=370693 |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |