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On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Neil Bothwick<neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:31:59 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: |
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>> Often times there's 1 or 2 packages I want from an overlay, but don't |
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>> want the entire overlay. Is there a way to do a selective sync of a |
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>> layman overlay? By that I mean tell layman to only sync certain |
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>> directories and their contents. |
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> The way I do this is I add the overlays in layman but do not add them |
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> to make.conf. Then I symlink individual directories from the layman |
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> overlay directory to my local overlay, which is in make.conf. That way |
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> I keep up to date with the one or two packages I need without pulling |
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> in the whole overlay. |
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That's a great idea, I'll give it a shot. Thanks! |