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On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 20:32, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: |
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> Andrew Cowie wrote: |
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> > I nosed around my system and discovered I don't have an /etc/portage. I |
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> > do have a /usr/portage of course, with a profiles/packages.mask in it. |
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> You have to create it yourself if you feel the need for it. |
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Fair enough. |
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What is the expected behaviour of /etc/portage/profiles? Is the content |
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of, say, /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask expected to be merged with |
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/etc/portage/profiles/package.mask by emerge when calculating |
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dependencies? |
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[My experiments showed that this is not the behaviour that occurs - the |
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one I created in /etc/portage/profiles was ignored] |
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I made the updates to package.mask in /usr/portage/profiles to "pin" |
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(good word for it, even if it is Debian in origin) MySql at < 4 and |
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Apache at < 2, but my concern is that the file in /usr/portage/profiles |
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gets updated whenever an emerge rsync is done, and so my changes were, |
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(as I expected) lost. |
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I feel like I'm missing something here. |
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AfC |
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Andrew Frederick Cowie |
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