Re: [gentoo-user] How to tell portage about manual builds

[Vladimir G. Ivanovic]

on 12/07/2007 07:30 PM Mark Shields said the following:
> man portage
>
> <snip>
>         package.provided
>         A list of packages (one per  line)  that  portage should
>         assume  have  been  provided.

My impression is that /etc/portage/package.provided is ignored.

If I execute

  # strace -Ff -e trace=open emerge -DpvuN world 2>&1 \
      | fgrep /etc/portage

package.provided never shows up as having been opened.

Also, entries that I have made in package.provided don't seem to
affect ebuilds.

--- Vladimir

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