Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge -uDN world" minus one package

Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge -uDN world" minus one package

[Daniel Vrcic]

* Jesse Adelman <jesse@boldandbusted.com> [07-05-01 14:08]:
[...]
> Any suggestions? When faced with a similar problem in the distant past,
> I've grabbed the old ebuild from CVS for mythtv (and plugins) and put it
> in an overlay, but that seems so inelegant...

You've grabbed the .ebuild for the version that is currently installed
but whose .ebuild disappeared from the portage tree? If so, you already
have it in the /var/db/pkg/ so you don't need to contact CVS. I wouldn't
say that's inelegant because you actually have the track of packet's
version installed on the system.
 
Anyway, I would temporarily remove media-tv/mythtv from the
/var/lib/portage/world and revert it back after portage's update world.

[...]

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Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge -uDN world" minus one package

[Neil Bothwick]

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Hello Jesse Adelman,

> Any suggestions? When faced with a similar problem in the distant past,
> I've grabbed the old ebuild from CVS for mythtv (and plugins) and put
> it in an overlay, but that seems so inelegant...

Why? Overlays are for ebuilds not in the portage tree, and this ebuild is
no longer in the portage tree. You'll also need
">media-tv/mythtv-0.20_p13288" in /etc/portage/package.mask to prevent
portage trying to upgrade.

Or you could let the current version of mythtv be installed, it's working
fine here :)


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Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge -uDN world" minus one package

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 01 May 2007, Jesse Adelman wrote:
> Any suggestions? When faced with a similar problem in the distant
> past, I've grabbed the old ebuild from CVS for mythtv (and plugins)
> and put it in an overlay, but that seems so inelegant... I'm not
> without a remedy, I just hope to find out a less invasive/cumbersome
> way to accomplish this.

But overlays are ideal for this. Think of it as overriding something 
while coding :-)

Grab the overlay you want to have installed, reversion it to 
$APCKAGE-9999 and put it in the local overlay. It will then always be 
merged instead of the current one in portage.

You can even KEYWORDS="" the ebuild so you can quickly and easily change 
to the latest version in portage with a single entry 
in /etc/portage/package.


alan


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