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From: Christian Aust <christian@××××××××××.de>
To: Gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing feature for
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 21:54:29
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In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing feature for by Daniel Armyr
1 Am Mo, 2003-06-09 um 23.28 schrieb Daniel Armyr:
2 > Have you looked into the PORTAGE_OVERLAY setting in /etc/make.conf. It is my experience that an ebuild with the same version in the overlay dir will override the one in /usr/portage. So when I want to use an unstable package, I copy it to the overlay, and edit the KEYWORDS variable in the ebuild. A bit hacky, but it works.
3 > --Daniel Armyr
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5 In gentoo forums I've found this:
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7 If you are using Portage >= 2.0.48, there is another option for
8 installing masked packages that does not require editing package.mask.
9 You can add a category/package entry into the file
10 /etc/portage/package.unmask, which will survive across an "emerge sync".
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12 [http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=33534]
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14 I've tried it, but it didn't show any effect. Currently this file just
15 consists of
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17 sys-devel/gcc-3.3
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19 What else should be in there? Will this file be loaded every time I
20 emerge something, or do I have to regen something? Best regards,
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22 - Christian
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