From: Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage fork: sys-apps/portage-mgorny
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 18:48:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e56dc6f-8ece-2f5c-4886-18c21d49d432@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <75a38489-f567-a59c-c877-c650ed28be14@gentoo.org>
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On 2018-03-23 18:44, Patrick McLean wrote:
> At my (and zmedico's) employer we use Gentoo heavily (all of our servers
> run it), and have a few large internal overlays and hundreds of internal
> profiles. There are packages in upstream Gentoo that we maintain an
> internal fork of, and it would be extremely useful if we could mask the
> ::gentoo version of something so a version bump does not cause it to be
> installed instead of our forked version.
I have the same need, but it works for me: I have several packages in
/etc/portage/package.mask directory with content like
<cat>/<pkg>::gentoo
to make sure the package from Gentoo repository isn't used.
But I guess you are talking about a different thing?
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Regards,
Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-26 16:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-22 19:03 [gentoo-dev] New Portage fork: sys-apps/portage-mgorny Michał Górny
2018-03-22 20:17 ` James Le Cuirot
2018-03-22 20:27 ` Michał Górny
2018-03-22 20:31 ` Zac Medico
2018-03-23 1:01 ` Herb Miller Jr.
2018-03-23 8:28 ` Michał Górny
2018-03-22 21:47 ` Consus
2018-03-22 22:06 ` Michał Górny
2018-03-22 22:52 ` Geaaru
2018-03-22 23:22 ` Zac Medico
2018-03-23 8:31 ` Michał Górny
2018-03-23 9:48 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-03-23 10:18 ` Francesco Riosa
2018-03-23 10:38 ` Franz Fellner
2018-03-23 10:53 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-03-24 7:02 ` Kent Fredric
2018-03-24 8:02 ` Michał Górny
2018-03-24 9:01 ` Kent Fredric
2018-03-24 12:54 ` Rich Freeman
2018-03-24 18:27 ` Zac Medico
2018-03-24 20:33 ` Kent Fredric
2018-03-24 20:44 ` Zac Medico
2018-03-25 2:26 ` Kent Fredric
2018-03-25 4:43 ` Zac Medico
2018-03-25 9:02 ` Kent Fredric
2018-03-26 7:48 ` Zac Medico
2018-03-23 10:38 ` Roy Bamford
2018-03-23 10:59 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-03-23 13:27 ` Rich Freeman
2018-03-23 14:25 ` Arve Barsnes
2018-03-23 16:20 ` Geaaru
2018-03-23 16:23 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2018-03-23 20:16 ` Georgy Yakovlev
2018-03-23 17:44 ` Patrick McLean
2018-03-26 16:48 ` Thomas Deutschmann [this message]
2018-03-26 18:36 ` Zac Medico
2018-03-25 10:13 ` Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov
2018-03-28 4:42 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2018-03-23 11:25 ` [gentoo-dev] " Consus
2018-05-19 15:53 ` Consus
2018-05-22 20:35 ` Michał Górny
2018-05-28 2:45 ` Richard Yao
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