Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Question about selecting ebuilds from local overlay
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:22:29
Message-Id: 20101016202144.2715966a@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Question about selecting ebuilds from local overlay by Mick
1 On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 18:00:31 +0100, Mick wrote:
2
3 > > The last named overlay has the highest priority, the standard portage
4 > > tree the lowest. Rather than mess with make.conf, you could override
5 > > PORTDIR_OVERLAY on the command line
6 > >
7 > > PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/my/preferred/overlay" emerge foo
8 >
9 > What will happen at the next emerge uaDv world?
10
11 Nothing, if the versions in the other overlays are not higher (which can
12 be fixed by masking).
13
14 An alternative approach could be to have a script that runs layman -S
15 and then removes the unwanted packages from the other overlays.
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19 Neil Bothwick
20
21 Pedestrians come in two types: Quick or Dead.

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