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On May 25, 2005 04:01 pm, Paul Smith wrote: |
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> I had a problem with the portdir_overlay option in the snapshot section. |
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> What it appears to be doing today is merely copying in the contents of |
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> the overlay directory on top of the existing Portage directory |
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> structure. I'm certainly no Portage expert, but I don't think that's |
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> how the $PORTDIR_OVERLAY setting in Portage works, is it? I think if |
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> Portage finds a directory in $PORTDIR_OVERLAY it takes those contents |
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> and ignores any contents from the "normal" /usr/portage... doesn't it? |
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I had a similar problem, I added categories to my overlay. Portage itself did |
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not like that, so I wrote a patch that _adds_ the content of the new |
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categories file to the already existing categories. Portage has this feature |
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now. |
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But catalyst just overwrites the categories file with the new one, so now, |
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only the packages in my catagories work ( and even then they depend on stuff |
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in regular categories, so emerging fails.) |
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I have not found a proper fix to this, I just added all the regular categories |
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to the categories file of the overlay... I guess it would be an easy patch to |
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write in catalyst... |
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But, I think the clean way would be to copy the overlay to some other place on |
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the filesystem and tell portage about it and let it deal with it. Fiddling in |
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catalyst is only error prone and will never be really in sync with overlay |
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features in portage. |
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My thoughts... |
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Louis-Michel Gelinas |
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> I fixed this by copying all the original files into my overlay, but it |
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> seems to me that Catalyst should not just copy the overlay files: it |
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> should remove the existing directory (e.g., |
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> ...usr/portage/dev-python/quixote) first, then copy in the overlay |
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> version. |
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> Thoughts on this? |
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> -- |
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> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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>---- Paul D. Smith <psmith@××××××.com> HASMAT: HA Software Mthds & |
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> Tools "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad |
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> Scientist |
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>---- These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for |
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> them. |
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