From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_NONE,FSL_HELO_NON_FQDN_1, HELO_NO_DOMAIN,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from cyclops (c-ec1c71d5.013-21-6d6c6d90.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se [213.113.28.236]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5CBDABD9B for ; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 03:13:34 -0500 (CDT) Received: from fredde by cyclops with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17gLBf-00024C-00 for ; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 10:13:27 +0200 Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 10:13:27 +0200 From: Fredrik Jagenheim To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Overriding package mask Message-ID: <20020818081327.GB5905@pobox.com> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <3D5D7C8C.7080002@werner-productions.de> <1029539321.12380.3.camel@waterhouse.internal.lan> <20020818140440.698d6380.j0n@tpg.com.au> <1029652282.5860.5.camel@waterhouse.internal.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1029652282.5860.5.camel@waterhouse.internal.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 1b7759cd-7907-4f62-9b94-3892f4cc9b78 X-Archives-Hash: a9c291552d89eabe578cb70f3e5f0c7d On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 04:31:21PM +1000, Troy Dack wrote: > > It would make sense (to me anyway) if the local ebuilds in > $PORTDIR_OVERLAY were *NOT* checked against packages.mask, that way us > end users could assist the developers by simply dropping masked ebuilds > into our local tree and then testing them. Yes, but make sure there is a way to mask packages in the OVERLAY directory. There are a couple of situtation where you still want to keep your local ebulld and not build it. If you screwed it up for example and don't want to bother with moving it out of the OVERLAY dir to a third dir for backups. Making a packages.mask in the OVERLAY dir would probably be the best way to do it. No, I haven't used this OVERLAY feature myself, so there may perhaps already be such a thing. Brgds, //Humming