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From: Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Precedence order of overlays
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:40:28
Message-Id: 200702021801.02222.alan@linuxholdings.co.za
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Precedence order of overlays by Harm Geerts
1 On Friday 02 February 2007, Harm Geerts wrote:
2 > On Friday 02 February 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote:
3
4 > > I want to guarantee that foo-9999.ebuild in /usr/local/portage will
5 > > be emerged in preference to an identically named and versioned
6 > > ebuild in layman. How do I do that?
7 > >
8 > > If I can't guarantee this, I'd also be happy bumping my ebuilds to
9 > > foo-99999.ebuild, but I'd rather do it with a config option if
10 > > possible.
11 >
12 > This is controlled by the order in which they apear in
13 > PORTDIR_OVERLAY. The last overlay that matches a package takes
14 > precedence.
15
16 Thanks for this, but Bo beat you to the correct answer by 6 minutes :-)
17
18 I think I'll make a suggestion to the appropriate maintainer to have
19 this documented in man 5 make.conf
20
21 alan
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26 Optimists say the glass is half full,
27 Pessimists say the glass is half empty,
28 Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be?
29
30 Alan McKinnon
31 alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za
32 +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five
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