Re: [gentoo-catalyst] concerning USE flags

[Andrew Gaffney]

Lanza Fabrizio wrote:
>  Hi, I'm sorry if this question might have been asked a thousand times,
> but I cannot find a solution. I also read the howtos that I could find,
> included the documentation that is currently removed from the gentoo site.
>
>  The question is, where do I tell Catalyst the correct USE flags for a
> specific program?
>
>  I tried in portage.config. It did not catch it.
>  I put it in
> /var/tmp/catalyst/tmp/mycd/livecd-stage1.../etc/portage/package.use. Same.
>  I put it in
> /var/tmp/catalyst/tmp/mycd/livecd-stage2.../etc/portage/package.use. Same.
>
>  I know that Catalyst does not read package.use as expected. But I don't
> see how to do then.
>
>  I suspected that, if I run catalyst again without removing the whole
> livecd-stage, it won't rebuild my package with the new USE flags. So, I
> removed the whole livecd-stage2, modified the USE flags, added my
> package that needed a rebuild with the correct flags, and rebuilt
> livecd-stage2 completely. But still it was built with the wrong flags
> and failed.
>
>  I will appreciate if you can point me to the right direction.
>  Thank you!

Are you using 'livecd/use: -* ...' in your spec? if so, this will cause portage 
to completely ignore package.use. This is "normal" behavior and has nothing to 
do with catalyst.

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Andrew Gaffney                                 http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
Gentoo Linux Developer             Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator
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