Re: [gentoo-dev] PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Jeremiah Mahler]

On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 05:31:32PM -0400, Paul wrote:
> 	Hi;
>
> 	Just some feedback:
> 	Since emerge automaticly cleans on rsync, I have been
> using PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" in make.conf, and it
> is working very nicely so far. I like this feature:)
>
> Paul
> set@×××××.com
>

I too like this feature. I find that I make lots of ebuilds just to
try out something. If I able to construct an ebuild that works and
is not "sketchy", I submit it to Gentoo. If I can't get it working
I disable it.

I stumbled upon a way to disable it which still informs me of its
presence.  If you append a period '.' to the end of the ebuild name
it will show up as [ Masked ] during an 'emerge -s <name>' command.

 $ cd /usr/portage.local/app-office/gbib/
 $ mv gbib-0.1.1b.ebuild gbib-0.1.1b.ebuild.
 $ emerge -s gbib
 Searching...
 [ Results for search key : gbib ]
 [ Applications found : 1 ]

 *  app-office/gbib [ Masked ]


-- 
Jeremiah Mahler
<jmahler@×××××××.net>