From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7A2991382C5 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2018 18:36:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E57B3E0943; Mon, 26 Mar 2018 18:36:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 897F8E08E5 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2018 18:36:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.128.13.172] (unknown [100.42.98.196]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: zmedico) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A4EA9335C2C; Mon, 26 Mar 2018 18:36:02 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage fork: sys-apps/portage-mgorny To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, Thomas Deutschmann References: <23220.52565.280134.566970@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <23220.56844.278087.25609@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <75a38489-f567-a59c-c877-c650ed28be14@gentoo.org> <9e56dc6f-8ece-2f5c-4886-18c21d49d432@gentoo.org> From: Zac Medico Message-ID: <20fd2cd7-7d1d-8f14-e450-10b70e1d9d64@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 11:36:00 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <9e56dc6f-8ece-2f5c-4886-18c21d49d432@gentoo.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="NU11dOiSNscOpunE4fnqP6HM5hHmPviNF" X-Archives-Salt: dc951996-0742-4351-bcd9-506f6ca8ffa5 X-Archives-Hash: 703f6ca57a46bf9a3ee1a097434ed7df This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --NU11dOiSNscOpunE4fnqP6HM5hHmPviNF Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="dfxfGu8jwfqqvHhuyMW533xgp8PEzQvf3"; protected-headers="v1" From: Zac Medico To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, Thomas Deutschmann Message-ID: <20fd2cd7-7d1d-8f14-e450-10b70e1d9d64@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage fork: sys-apps/portage-mgorny References: <23220.52565.280134.566970@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <23220.56844.278087.25609@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <75a38489-f567-a59c-c877-c650ed28be14@gentoo.org> <9e56dc6f-8ece-2f5c-4886-18c21d49d432@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <9e56dc6f-8ece-2f5c-4886-18c21d49d432@gentoo.org> --dfxfGu8jwfqqvHhuyMW533xgp8PEzQvf3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 03/26/2018 09:48 AM, Thomas Deutschmann wrote: > On 2018-03-23 18:44, Patrick McLean wrote: >> At my (and zmedico's) employer we use Gentoo heavily (all of our serve= rs >> run it), and have a few large internal overlays and hundreds of intern= al >> profiles. There are packages in upstream Gentoo that we maintain an >> internal fork of, and it would be extremely useful if we could mask th= e >> ::gentoo version of something so a version bump does not cause it to b= e >> installed instead of our forked version. >=20 > I have the same need, but it works for me: I have several packages in > /etc/portage/package.mask directory with content like >=20 > /::gentoo >=20 > to make sure the package from Gentoo repository isn't used. >=20 > But I guess you are talking about a different thing? The issue is that people are using profiles hosted in repositories other than gentoo, complete with profiles.desc entries (eselect profile supports this), and they would like to have the ability to use ::repo atoms in these profiles. --=20 Thanks, Zac --dfxfGu8jwfqqvHhuyMW533xgp8PEzQvf3-- --NU11dOiSNscOpunE4fnqP6HM5hHmPviNF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHEEARECADEWIQSG5RNTeMgVEruefzL96O+FrlcZowUCWrk9kBMcem1lZGljb0Bn ZW50b28ub3JnAAoJEP3o74WuVxmjox8An1fJ1KrTuupJE4TnkgxAUeh2FKbzAJ9j 2WTadPYThgx4Wot5PmncPJoABg== =xCEa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NU11dOiSNscOpunE4fnqP6HM5hHmPviNF--