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Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 18:13:46 +0200
From: Sebastian Werner <sebastian@werner-productions.de>
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To: Troy Dack <troy@tkdack.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Overriding package mask
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Troy Dack schrieb:

>On Sat, 2002-08-17 at 08:28, Sebastian Werner wrote:
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>>Hi!
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>>I want to use the beta version of gimp. So I unmask gimp in 
>>package.mask. But each rsync this file will be overwritten and I have to 
>>modify it again. We have a portage overlay support now... what's about 
>>to add a /usr/portage.local/profiles/package.ok which overrides 
>>package.mask in /usr/portage? Is it possible to implement something like 
>>this. I have some more programs which are declared as beta but I want to 
>>use :)
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>It doesn't exist as yet, but it is in development.  There is at least
>one bug on bugs.gentoo.org where the devs are discussing this.
>
>At the moment your best bet is to copy the gimp directory to your
>PORTAGE_OVERLAY directory.  Local ebuild are not checked against the
>package.mask file.
>

cool thank you for this info... :)

Sebastian

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