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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Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer
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