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 1P6fD5-0003xV-7c for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:00:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AF890E07B6; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 07:59:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com (mail-ew0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 702E2E07B6 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 07:59:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy8 with SMTP id 8so298344ewy.40 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:59:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=6IpC5e3xfuRthJO4fglaPY3XxjCM0XYBDZ3sIthqU6M=; b=uPLkA/oxMXZqmWTe4sRjmow9kj1pAuLDySOYKbID8QVXvAWY+NqRXYR88NqWO8gkGu RqyaKgJytrklZIjunndhxGk+aqi1nufFyLfZcomxVversn0iAzmy/Rjji/7BDvrgdqXN 3HPp1sa8yLBfOwvz5I0a1zAwtTEPj/4P5KZWs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=s790BfzwPfvHVYCzLX3mmRuC0I6h9efuHbKH7wPbgjEMIvGYgAZfal41W0RokGJhHh Joay2/bJXH0HVuyCOTLJxUISXti65qc4WWlZhKFUDRqyr4baNJtFg7UeLK+wegyEQMo6 B9V/W9JPDix0SEtXDRJCIwNIm7rV92Kk3k2o0= Received: by 10.213.109.11 with SMTP id h11mr113405ebp.48.1287129589900; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:59:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-2-42.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.2.42]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q51sm3920513eeh.10.2010.10.15.00.59.47 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:59:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Question about selecting ebuilds from local overlay Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 10:00:21 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35-ck-r4; KDE/4.5.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <20101015063105.GA21954@waltdnes.org> <20101015084929.07637ad4@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20101015084929.07637ad4@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201010151000.21472.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: e1efff65-05a5-4331-816e-a159137628f0 X-Archives-Hash: 8f15e181d2fda1dd8c9134c7721d1f27 Apparently, though unproven, at 09:49 on Friday 15 October 2010, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: > On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 02:31:05 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > 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. > > The last named overlay has the highest priority, the standard portage > tree the lowest. Rather than mess with make.conf, you could override > PORTDIR_OVERLAY on the command line > > PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/my/preferred/overlay" emerge foo Probably not useful to the OP, but I have a dim memory of some recent blog post somewhere. One of the alternate package managers has better support for this kind of thing than portage. Not paludis, rather something with "cave" in it's name -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com