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On Tuesday 01 May 2007, Jesse Adelman wrote: |
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> Any suggestions? When faced with a similar problem in the distant |
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> past, I've grabbed the old ebuild from CVS for mythtv (and plugins) |
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> and put it in an overlay, but that seems so inelegant... I'm not |
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> without a remedy, I just hope to find out a less invasive/cumbersome |
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> way to accomplish this. |
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But overlays are ideal for this. Think of it as overriding something |
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while coding :-) |
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Grab the overlay you want to have installed, reversion it to |
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$APCKAGE-9999 and put it in the local overlay. It will then always be |
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merged instead of the current one in portage. |
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You can even KEYWORDS="" the ebuild so you can quickly and easily change |
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to the latest version in portage with a single entry |
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in /etc/portage/package. |
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alan |
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Optimists say the glass is half full, |
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Pessimists say the glass is half empty, |
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Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za |
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+27 82, double three seven, one nine three five |
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