From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26190 invoked by uid 1002); 16 Jul 2003 12:10:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 22860 invoked from network); 16 Jul 2003 12:10:38 -0000 From: Andrew Cowie To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <3F13D843.50103@codewordt.co.uk> References: <20030713154724.3dca65b1.ian@ihtruelsen.dyndns.org> <1058232599.1936.19.camel@localhost> <3F13D843.50103@codewordt.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Operational Dynamics Message-Id: <1058357435.7364.6.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4- Date: 16 Jul 2003 22:10:36 +1000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] **HEADS UP** Apache2 + MySQL4 moving to stable status X-Archives-Salt: c7cc327a-d3d0-4c54-ae69-c5c6154e1944 X-Archives-Hash: 8f77b43956c590fb819b7d2bbfe7ff94 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 -- Andrew Frederick Cowie Operational Dynamics Consulting Pty Ltd Australia +61 2 9977 6866 North America +1 646 270 5376 http://www.operationaldynamics.com/ -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list