Re: [gentoo-user] Precedence order of overlays

[Alan McKinnon]

On Friday 02 February 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> > I have several packages that I maintain my own ebuilds for, as it's
> > CVS sources. I keep these in /usr/local/portage. As it happens
> > ebuilds for these same packages are also in layman, and I have the
> > relevant overlay enabled.
> >
> > So far it would appear that my local overlay is taking precedence
> > over layman. I've read the layman docs and there is an option for
> > precedence, but it seems to apply to layman only, and that's not
> > what I want. The portage docs seems to be sparse on this matter of
> > overlays.
> >
> > I want to guarantee that foo-9999.ebuild in /usr/local/portage will
> > be emerged in preference to an identically named and versioned
> > ebuild in layman. How do I do that?
>
> If several overlays contain the same version of an ebuild portage
> will only see the one from the overlay that is listed last in
> PORTDIR_OVERLAY. This is why /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf
> prepends layman overlays to PORTDIR_OVERLAY rather than appending
> them.

Excellent, this is exactly what I needed to know. Thanks.

> > If I can't guarantee this, I'd also be happy bumping my ebuilds to
> > foo-99999.ebuild, but I'd rather do it with a config option if
> > possible.
>
> Do note that portage will consider e.g. foo-20050101.ebuild a higher
> version than foo-9999.ebuild.

Why is that? Because 20050101 is a bigger number than 9999? If so, it's 
not a problem, as the ebuilds don't use version numbers formatted that 
way

alan


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