From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16147 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2004 11:39:50 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 25 Jul 2004 11:39:50 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BohM6-0005OV-G7 for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 11:39:50 +0000 Received: (qmail 19994 invoked by uid 89); 25 Jul 2004 11:39:29 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 13589 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2004 11:39:28 +0000 In-Reply-To: <200407251725.34913.jstubbs@gentoo.org> References: <180D5EB6-DDEC-11D8-B5A6-000D93283962@gentoo.org> <200407251342.09843.jstubbs@gentoo.org> <200407251725.34913.jstubbs@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v618) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <4A13A7B5-DE2F-11D8-B5A6-000D93283962@gentoo.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, Pieter Van den Abeele From: Pieter Van den Abeele Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 13:39:29 +0200 To: Jason Stubbs X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.618) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] macos mess X-Archives-Salt: 2f521373-3f4c-4641-8f97-a608342efbf7 X-Archives-Hash: 230f4b5141fc3ddda23653be3044105c Thnxs. Is the fix in cvs? I'd like to make a cvs snapshot and have our devs test. Best regards, Pieter Van den Abeele On 25 Jul 2004, at 10:25, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Sunday 25 July 2004 13:42, Jason Stubbs wrote: >> I'll get to work on throwing --inject away completely and replacing >> it with >> an profile addition (which will be user extendable) that will allow >> the >> ignoring of certain packages during dep resolution. > > Done. The file package.provided can be added to profiles and should > contain a > cat/pkg-ver for each package that is maintained outside of portage. > Repoman > will transparently use the file and not complain about missing deps. > Users > can also create and add to /etc/portage/package.provided for anything > that > would normally be injected. > > Similarities to --inject: > * The package will be installed if specified on the command line or in > either > system or world. > > Differences to --inject: > * /var/db/pkg is not touched > * --emptytree will not try to pull the package in > * Possible upgrades will be ignored on --deep if the "provided" > package can > satisfy all dependencies. > * The dependencies for the package will be ignored on either --deep or > --emptytree. > > Regards, > Jason Stubbs > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list