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On 03/26/2018 09:48 AM, Thomas Deutschmann wrote: |
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> On 2018-03-23 18:44, Patrick McLean wrote: |
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>> At my (and zmedico's) employer we use Gentoo heavily (all of our servers |
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>> run it), and have a few large internal overlays and hundreds of internal |
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>> profiles. There are packages in upstream Gentoo that we maintain an |
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>> internal fork of, and it would be extremely useful if we could mask the |
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>> ::gentoo version of something so a version bump does not cause it to be |
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>> installed instead of our forked version. |
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> I have the same need, but it works for me: I have several packages in |
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> /etc/portage/package.mask directory with content like |
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> <cat>/<pkg>::gentoo |
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> to make sure the package from Gentoo repository isn't used. |
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> But I guess you are talking about a different thing? |
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The issue is that people are using profiles hosted in repositories other |
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than gentoo, complete with profiles.desc entries (eselect profile |
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supports this), and they would like to have the ability to use ::repo |
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atoms in these profiles. |
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-- |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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