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Apparently, though unproven, at 09:49 on Friday 15 October 2010, Neil Bothwick |
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did opine thusly: |
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> On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 02:31:05 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> > 1) What if I want to use the standard ebuild and ignore my local ebuild |
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> > (probably quite rare)? |
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> > 2) How would I select the the specific version I want (they all have the |
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> > same ebuild name) if I have multiple local overlays? |
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> > I could tweak the overlays setting in /etc/make.conf or rename a local |
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> > overlay directory, so that it doesn't get seen as an overlay, but that |
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> > seems rather heavy-handed. |
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> The last named overlay has the highest priority, the standard portage |
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> tree the lowest. Rather than mess with make.conf, you could override |
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> PORTDIR_OVERLAY on the command line |
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> PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/my/preferred/overlay" emerge foo |
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Probably not useful to the OP, but |
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I have a dim memory of some recent blog post somewhere. One of the alternate |
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package managers has better support for this kind of thing than portage. |
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Not paludis, rather something with "cave" in it's name |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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