From: Jonathan Kelly <j0n@tpg.com.au>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Overriding package mask
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 16:57:34 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020818165734.6029f4bc.j0n@tpg.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1029652282.5860.5.camel@waterhouse.internal.lan>
On 18 Aug 2002 16:31:21 +1000
Troy Dack <troy@tkdack.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 14:04, Jonathan Kelly wrote:
> > I beg to differ ... I did this with media-gfx/povray and after every
> > "emerge sync" I get ....
> > # emerge -pu povray
>
> My apologies, I thought that the local ebuilds were NOT checked against
> packages.mask.
>
> I've just tried the same thing as you, with the same results.
>
> 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. Sure it means that there is
> duplication and some extra hard drive space taken up, but ebuilds aren't
> that big. Also for those wishing to test ebuilds it would be a
> conscious decision to place a masked ebuild in your local tree.
I think that is a logical and great idea.
Cheers.
Jonathan Kelly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-18 7:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-16 22:28 [gentoo-dev] Overriding package mask Sebastian Werner
2002-08-16 22:42 ` mike
2002-08-16 23:08 ` Troy Dack
2002-08-17 16:13 ` Sebastian Werner
2002-08-18 4:04 ` Jonathan Kelly
2002-08-18 6:31 ` Troy Dack
2002-08-18 6:57 ` Jonathan Kelly [this message]
2002-08-18 9:40 ` Rigo
2002-08-18 9:43 ` Rigo
2002-08-18 16:26 ` Jon Nelson
2002-08-18 17:26 ` mike
2002-08-18 8:13 ` Fredrik Jagenheim
2002-08-18 11:12 ` Troy Dack
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2002-08-18 6:54 Thomas Beaudry
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