Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Fwd: /etc/portage/profile/{pmask,arch.list, categories}

[Marius Mauch]

On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 10:21:49 -0500
Alec Warner <warnera6@×××××××.edu> wrote:

>
> My Apologies, KMail died, and when I restarted it it had the mail but
> stripped the attachment ;)
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> Subject: /etc/portage/profile/{pmask,arch.list, categories}
> Date: Monday 09 January 2006 09:59
> From: Alec Warner <warnera6@×××××××.edu>
> To: gentoo-portage-dev@g.o
>
> Apparently these weren't working ( not being read in ) due to a lack
> of /etc/portage/profile being in Locations in config in portage.py
>
> I split a patch for hte issue by simply adding the extra location and
> fixing the odd grabfile_package calls.  It seems grabfile package was
> stripping the
> - so it wouldn't nuke existing entries in the pmask file.
>
> Comments welcome as usual.

The profile stacking doesn't work that way ...
$PORTDIR/profiles/ and /etc/portage aren't part of the profile
stack, /etc/portage/profile is and actually works as intended. So this
patch would actually create a bug instead of fixing one
And if you think those dirs should be part of the stacking the patch is
still wrong as it has to be done the other way round.

Marius

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