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On 17 Aug 2002 09:08:41 +1000 |
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Troy Dack <troy@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2002-08-17 at 08:28, Sebastian Werner wrote: |
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> > Hi! |
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> > I want to use the beta version of gimp. So I unmask gimp in |
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> > package.mask. But each rsync this file will be overwritten and I have |
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> > to modify it again. We have a portage overlay support now... what's |
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> > about to add a /usr/portage.local/profiles/package.ok which overrides |
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> > package.mask in /usr/portage? Is it possible to implement something |
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> > like this. I have some more programs which are declared as beta but I |
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> > want to use :) |
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> > |
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> |
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> It doesn't exist as yet, but it is in development. There is at least |
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> one bug on bugs.gentoo.org where the devs are discussing this. |
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> At the moment your best bet is to copy the gimp directory to your |
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> PORTAGE_OVERLAY directory. Local ebuild are not checked against the |
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> package.mask file. |
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I beg to differ ... I did this with media-gfx/povray and after every |
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"emerge sync" I get .... |
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# emerge -pu povray |
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These are the packages that I would merge, in order. |
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Calculating dependencies ...done! |
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[ebuild U ] media-gfx/povray-3.1g-r5 to / |
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Jonathan Kelly. |
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