Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild development (vpopmail, etc.)

[Casey Allen Shobe <lists@seattleserver.com>]

On Monday 18 July 2005 06:57, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 22:07 -0700, Anthony Gorecki wrote:
> > On Sunday, July 17, 2005 9:26 pm, Casey Allen Shobe wrote:
> > > I'm also a bit confused about the portdir_overlay thing - If
> > > there exists a -r15, do I then add a -r16 to make emerge
> > > realize an update is available.  What happens then when an
> > > -r16 hits the regular portage tree?
> >
> > Nothing at all. If there's a conflict between the standard tree
> > and your overlay, the ebuild in the overlay takes priority.
>
> In other words, something very important: You miss all the
> potentially critical changes contained in the new "official"
> revision.

So if I read correctly, when using an overlay, just don't change the 
version number - a rebuild will be sufficient to use the overlay 
version.  Righto.

Cheers,
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