Re: [gentoo-dev] **HEADS UP** Apache2 + MySQL4 moving to stable status

[Andrew Cowie <andrew@operationaldynamics.com>]

On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 20:32, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote:
> Andrew Cowie wrote:
> > I nosed around my system and discovered I don't have an /etc/portage. I
> > do have a /usr/portage of course, with a profiles/packages.mask in it. 
> 
> You have to create it yourself if you feel the need for it.

Fair enough.

What is the expected behaviour of /etc/portage/profiles? Is the content
of, say, /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask expected to be merged with
/etc/portage/profiles/package.mask by emerge when calculating
dependencies? 

[My experiments showed that this is not the behaviour that occurs - the
one I created in /etc/portage/profiles was ignored]

I made the updates to package.mask in /usr/portage/profiles to "pin"
(good word for it, even if it is Debian in origin) MySql at < 4 and
Apache at < 2, but my concern is that the file in /usr/portage/profiles
gets updated whenever an emerge rsync is done, and so my changes were,
(as I expected) lost.

I feel like I'm missing something here.

AfC


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