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On Friday 02 February 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I have several packages that I maintain my own ebuilds for, as it's CVS |
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> sources. I keep these in /usr/local/portage. As it happens ebuilds for |
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> these same packages are also in layman, and I have the relevant overlay |
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> enabled. |
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> So far it would appear that my local overlay is taking precedence over |
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> layman. I've read the layman docs and there is an option for |
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> precedence, but it seems to apply to layman only, and that's not what I |
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> want. The portage docs seems to be sparse on this matter of overlays. |
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> I want to guarantee that foo-9999.ebuild in /usr/local/portage will be |
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> emerged in preference to an identically named and versioned ebuild in |
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> layman. How do I do that? |
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> If I can't guarantee this, I'd also be happy bumping my ebuilds to |
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> foo-99999.ebuild, but I'd rather do it with a config option if |
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> possible. |
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This is controlled by the order in which they apear in PORTDIR_OVERLAY. |
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The last overlay that matches a package takes precedence. |
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