From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] removing an overlay
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:06:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100820090625.3e72b97e@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimM-NG1YMepvJsX_hsnNjUSu0q25J6bcRSH-5_u@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:25:12 -0500, Alan Warren wrote:
> I'm surprised packages in overlays take precedence over portage.
> Is
> there any way to get a single package from an overlay without taking
> "everything" ?
An overlay has to take precedence, otherwise putting a fixed ebuild in
your local overlay will have no effect.
> Is
> there any way to get a single package from an overlay without taking
> "everything" ?
What I do it ad the overlay with layman, so it is kept up to date, but
don't add it to make.conf. Then I symlink the packages I want from that
overlay to my local overlay.
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Neil Bothwick
You are about to give someone a piece of your mind,
something you can ill afford...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-20 8:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-20 4:25 [gentoo-user] removing an overlay Alan Warren
2010-08-20 7:30 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-08-20 8:06 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2010-08-20 13:29 ` Alan Warren
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