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From: Rigo <rigo@××××.nl>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Overriding package mask
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 07:19:19
Message-Id: 1029663785.11198.17.camel@lappy.rogi.biz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Overriding package mask by Rigo
1 Hmmm, Just saw this was suggestion no. 2 in Bugzilla....Seems I have to
2 spend EVEN MORE time overthere ;-D !
3
4 Never Mind !
5
6
7 Rigo
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10 Op zo 18-08-2002, om 11:40 schreef Rigo:
11 > Op zo 18-08-2002, om 08:57 schreef Jonathan Kelly:
12 > > On 18 Aug 2002 16:31:21 +1000
13 > > Troy Dack <troy@××××××.com> wrote:
14 > >
15 > > > On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 14:04, Jonathan Kelly wrote:
16 > > > > I beg to differ ... I did this with media-gfx/povray and after every
17 > > > > "emerge sync" I get ....
18 > > > > # emerge -pu povray
19 > > >
20 > > > My apologies, I thought that the local ebuilds were NOT checked against
21 > > > packages.mask.
22 > > >
23 > > > I've just tried the same thing as you, with the same results.
24 > > >
25 > > > It would make sense (to me anyway) if the local ebuilds in
26 > > > $PORTDIR_OVERLAY were *NOT* checked against packages.mask, that way us
27 > > > end users could assist the developers by simply dropping masked ebuilds
28 > > > into our local tree and then testing them. Sure it means that there is
29 > > > duplication and some extra hard drive space taken up, but ebuilds aren't
30 > > > that big. Also for those wishing to test ebuilds it would be a
31 > > > conscious decision to place a masked ebuild in your local tree.
32 > >
33 > > I think that is a logical and great idea.
34 >
35 > Wouldn't it also be nice if settings in
36 > $PORTDIR_OVERLAY/profiles/package.mask overrule settings in
37 > $PORTDIR/profiles/package.mask ? This way directories could stay in
38 > $PORTDIR and you don't have to keep worrying about changin' package.mask
39 > time & time again.
40 >
41 > Ex:
42 >
43 > lappy # diff /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask
44 > /root/package.mask.2|grep povray
45 >
46 > < #=media-gfx/povray-3.50a
47 > > =media-gfx/povray-3.50a
48 >
49 >
50 > Just a thought,
51 >
52 > Rigo
53 >
54 > >
55 > > Cheers.
56 > > Jonathan Kelly.
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