Re: [gentoo-dev] local package.mask / or unmask

[Tom Prado]

Thanks!  This will work nicely.  

Tom 

On 10 Sep 2002, Rigo Ketelings wrote:

> There's a script out there (forums I believe I found it) that will tell
> you what new ebuilds there are, every time you rsync....A little hack
> overwrites package.mask with your local one (set by the script)....Be
> carefull though...Once new ebuilds start crawling in (ALWAYS tested in
> package.mask first; but not for you....if you're using this script
> anyway ;-)
>
> It also has functionality for a different thirdpartymirrors file and
> reservers a package.mask.rsynced (=Current package.mask) in
> $PORTDIR_OVERLAY
>
> I named it 'er' after the proces emerge rsync ;-)
>
> Have fun,
>
> Rigo
>


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>
>  Op di 10-09-2002, om 05:08 schreef Tom Prado:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > There's probably something in the documentation describing how to do
> > this but I couldn't seem to find anything anywhere.    I have
> > modifications to my /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask but everytime I
> > emerge rsync, I loose them all and have to reapply.   Is there a way to
> > have a local package.mask file that I can use to both mask specific
> > versions of packages and unmask others that are currently masked in the
> > central one?  I tried creating one in /usr/portage.local/profiles (after
> > setting PORTDIR_OVERLAY in /etc/make.conf) but that didn't seem to have
> > any effect.
> >
> > Thank you for your time,
> > Tom Prado
> >
> >
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