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>> Can I mask all packages from a layman overlay except for one? |
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> Check out Mark Knecht's thread from 5 hours ago asking the same question. :) |
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Ouch, sorry. I bet he was doing the exact same thing I'm doing. Darn |
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poppler, eh Mark! The version number is the same so you can't mask it |
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out even temporarily. |
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> Short answer was don't let portage see the overlay, instead symlink |
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> the packages you want to your local overlay instead, so only they will |
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> be seen by portage, while still allowing you to sync the overlay as |
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> usual. |
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Based on that info, I just copied it into /usr/local/portage. It's |
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hal so I don't think there is to much likelihood of an update. |
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- Grant |
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