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Hi All, |
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I didn't have to do this before, so will need help to manage portage: |
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A particular package has been hard masked for removal. I would like |
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to either move it in my local portage, or even better emerge a more |
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recent version. So, I found an ebuild, modified it a bit and now I am |
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trying to emerge it, but it seems that the package.mask won't let me: |
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!!! The following installed packages are masked: |
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- app-pda/plptools-0.13 (masked by: package.mask) |
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/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: |
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# Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o> (30 May 2009) |
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# Masked for removal in 60 days. Doesn't build, version bump pending. Designed |
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# for really old PDA hardware (circa '90s) - will need a maintainer that has |
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# hardware. bug 227601 |
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I am trying to emerge v1.0.8, not 0.13 as shown above. Should the |
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above mask stop me emerging it from my local overlay? How do I allow |
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a local overlay emerge, while respecting portage's hard mask for |
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ebuilds in the main tree only? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |