Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to make emerge skirt a package built from tar.gz

[Ryan Tandy <tarpman@gmail.com>]

reader@newsguy.com wrote:

>Ryan Tandy <tarpman@gmail.com> writes:
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>>emerge --inject 'app-foo/bar-1.2.3'
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>>Sounds like that's what you're thinking of.
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>That may be a way to do it.  It isn't what I was thinking of though.
>I've never heard of this and man emerges has almost nothing to say
>about it.  And `man inject'  doesn't now about it at all.
>
>The man page makes a brief comment:
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>[ebuild U-] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0 [4.2.99.902]
>    The - represents lack of SLOT  information  about  Xfree.   This
>    will  occur  when the previous version emerged was injected (see
>    inject for more info) or very outdated (so old that SLOT did not
>    exist).   Either  way,  a newer version of Xfree is availabe for
>    your updating delight.
>
>But fails to mention where one can `see inject'.   That is the only
>occurance of `inject' in man emerge.
>
>I think is was something entered in /etc/portag/package.SOMETHING
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I think emerge --inject is being deprecated, but I can't remember any 
sort of alternative.  What the command does is tell Portage to think a 
package is installed, regardless of whether or not it is.  I believe its 
purpose is/was to allow developers to muck around with patches and 
uber-unstable builds (e.g. CVS snapshots) without having to learn 
ebuild-ing in order to satisfy dependencies on other packages.

Aha!  A bit of effort solves everything!

tarpman@delta ~ $ emerge --inject

*** --inject has been deprecated.
*** If you manage a piece of software yourself, add it's name and
*** version (eg foo/bar-1.0) to /etc/portage/profile/package.provided.
*** If you want to prevent portage from upgrading a package, add it to
*** /etc/portage/package.mask prepending it with '>' (eg >foo/bar-1.0)
*** For more information on fine-grained portage control, please see
*** the portage man page.

emerge: root access required.
tarpman@delta ~ $

I have a feeling (Captain Obvious strikes again!) that 
/etc/portage/profile/package.provided is what you're looking for...
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