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On 2018-03-23 18:44, Patrick McLean wrote: |
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> At my (and zmedico's) employer we use Gentoo heavily (all of our servers |
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> run it), and have a few large internal overlays and hundreds of internal |
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> profiles. There are packages in upstream Gentoo that we maintain an |
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> internal fork of, and it would be extremely useful if we could mask the |
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> ::gentoo version of something so a version bump does not cause it to be |
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> installed instead of our forked version. |
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I have the same need, but it works for me: I have several packages in |
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/etc/portage/package.mask directory with content like |
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<cat>/<pkg>::gentoo |
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to make sure the package from Gentoo repository isn't used. |
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But I guess you are talking about a different thing? |
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Regards, |
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Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer |
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