From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: package.provided syntax
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:09:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <440D3FD6.6000809@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874q2b4cfy.fsf@newsguy.com>
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Harry Putnam wrote:
>> The example for package.provided syntax in `man portage` shows categories like this:
>>
>> app-backup/rsnapshot-1.2.2
>> app-backup/bacula-1.48.5
>> app-editors/emacs-cvs-24
>
> Ok, I'm a little gun shy to post this now but I'm still seeing
> somethign screwy.
>
> cat /etc/portage/package.provided
Oops, package.provided goes in /etc/portage/profile/ (it's an override for /etc/make.profile). That's probably a common mistake.
> app-backup/rsnapshot-1.2.2
> app-backup/bacula-1.48.5
> app-editors/emacs-cvs-24
>
> emerge -vp app-editors/emacs-cvs:
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild U ] app-editors/emacs-cvs-22.0.50-r1 [22.0.50] USE="X gif
> gtk jpeg nls png spell -Xaw3d -tiff" 0 kB
Hmm, the emerge output indicates that app-editors/emacs-cvs-22.0.50 is installed (managed by portage). Normally package.provided is used for packages that aren't managed by portage. Now I'm not sure what you want to accomplish.
Zac
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-06 17:58 [gentoo-user] package.provided syntax Harry Putnam
2006-03-06 18:10 ` Dave Nebinger
2006-03-06 18:47 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2006-03-06 18:51 ` Harry Putnam
2006-03-07 5:00 ` Glenn Enright
2006-03-06 18:50 ` [gentoo-user] " Zac Medico
2006-03-06 18:55 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2006-03-06 19:09 ` Harry Putnam
2006-03-07 8:00 ` Rumen Yotov
2006-03-07 13:41 ` Harry Putnam
2006-03-07 8:09 ` Zac Medico [this message]
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