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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Question about package.provided
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 03:09:37
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b0606012003i67e2690egfe4bdce7bc04aa97@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Question about package.provided by Paul Varner
1 On 6/1/06, Paul Varner <fuzzyray@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 18:57 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
3 > > Hi,
4 > > I'm having a bit of trouble with the package.provided feature. I've
5 > > build a new version of Jack that is not available in portage. It was
6 > > my understanding that I could tell emerge to not emerge lower version
7 > > of Jack by placing the following info in
8 > > /etc/portage/package.provided:
9 > >
10 > > mark@lightning ~ $ cat /etc/portage/package.provided
11 > > =media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit-0.102.7
12 > > mark@lightning ~ $
13 > >
14 > > What mistake am I making?
15 >
16 > The file should be /etc/portage/profile/package.provided
17 >
18 > Regards,
19 > Paul
20
21 Thanks Paul!
22
23 - Mark
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