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

[Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>]

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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Alan McKinnon
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