Re: [gentoo-user] Prefer Gentoo repository rather than overlay?

[J. Roeleveld]

On 23 April 2020 21:35:22 CEST, Caveman Al Toraboran <toraboracaveman@××××××××××.com> wrote:
>
>On Thursday, April 23, 2020 11:09 PM, Matt Connell (Gmail)
><matthewdconnell@×××××.com> wrote:
>
>> Looking for some guidance in managing the source of package
>> installs/upgrades when a package is provided by both the standard
>> repository and an overlay.
>>
>> I currently have the poly-c overlay added via layman. poly-c provides
>> many of the same packages as the standard gentoo repository.
>>
>> When I install/update packages, portage appears to prefer the version
>> provided by poly-c rather than the version provided by the gentoo
>> repository, if the two provide the same version number of the
>package.
>> Examples of this include sys-boot/grub, sys-fs/udev, and other
>critical
>> packages.
>>
>> I would prefer that portage prioritize gentoo's version rather than
>the
>> overlay's version, unless specified otherwise (eg.
>> sys-boot/grub::poly-c) when installing.
>>
>> What's the best way to go about doing this? I could specify ::gentoo
>> for each entry in my world file, but this seems rather heavy-handed
>and
>> high maintenance. Is there a better way?
>
>
>**warning** i'm dumb.
>
>didn't try it, but i guess you'll get the effect
>you want by:
>
>    * setting priority of your layman repo below -1000.
>    * setting priority of the gentoo repo above
>      50 (i think default for layman).
>
>more info:
>https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Ebuild_repository#Priorities

I got this working by only setting the priority of the gentoo repo to 999. 

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