From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P6dq2-00085a-74 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 06:32:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B3E1AE074B; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 06:31:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9610DE074B for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 06:31:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 110B11B40DF for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 06:31:41 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.441 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.441 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.158, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 2XvMsp5jHU6c for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 06:31:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.181]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7397F1B4328 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 06:31:33 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AkQKAA2St0xMCoTz/2dsb2JhbACgKXhyviaFSASNU4Q/ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.57,334,1283745600"; d="scan'208";a="79677309" Received: from 76-10-132-243.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([76.10.132.243]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with SMTP; 15 Oct 2010 02:31:31 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 15 Oct 2010 02:31:05 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 02:31:05 -0400 To: Gentoo Users List Subject: [gentoo-user] Question about selecting ebuilds from local overlay Message-ID: <20101015063105.GA21954@waltdnes.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Archives-Salt: d32ad3b4-0337-49f4-9e7d-9460759e205b X-Archives-Hash: 6f0b9bea83e4a7b4b68a4187a2752392 I can't rename the ebuild, or give it a weird build number, because the ebuild filename is used to select files to download. I'm tweaking Firefox ebuild and eclass internals, but keeping the same filenames. The emerge default seems to be to prefer the local overlay, which is what I want right now. I checked "man emerge" but can't find anything about the following 2 situations... 1) What if I want to use the standard ebuild and ignore my local ebuild (probably quite rare)? 2) How would I select the the specific version I want (they all have the same ebuild name) if I have multiple local overlays? I could tweak the overlays setting in /etc/make.conf or rename a local overlay directory, so that it doesn't get seen as an overlay, but that seems rather heavy-handed. -- Walter Dnes