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From: Paul Varner <fuzzyray@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Question about package.provided
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 02:33:56
Message-Id: 1149215039.7154.1.camel@vmware.local.domain
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Question about package.provided by Mark Knecht
1 On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 18:57 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 > I'm having a bit of trouble with the package.provided feature. I've
4 > build a new version of Jack that is not available in portage. It was
5 > my understanding that I could tell emerge to not emerge lower version
6 > of Jack by placing the following info in
7 > /etc/portage/package.provided:
8 >
9 > mark@lightning ~ $ cat /etc/portage/package.provided
10 > =media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit-0.102.7
11 > mark@lightning ~ $
12 >
13 > What mistake am I making?
14
15 The file should be /etc/portage/profile/package.provided
16
17 Regards,
18 Paul
19
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Re: [gentoo-user] Question about package.provided Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>