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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Moving the portage tree to /var
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 10:46:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <544D093F.8090908@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2iuu1$tau$1@ger.gmane.org>

On 10/26/2014 10:02 AM, Martin Vaeth wrote:
> Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>
>> I haven't bothered with it either, I really like being able to do:
>>
>>   PORTDIR="$REPOS/gentoo-x86" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" emerge -1 whatever
> 
> Why don't you do emerge -1 whatever::gentoo

When adding a new ebuild, I want the entire ::gentoo repo to disappear
so that I get warned if I forgot to do something in ::gentoo-x86.


> Moreover, you can use PORTAGE_REPOSITORIES for temporary overrides
> of repos.conf

Well, it's not (documented?) in stable portage, so there's that =)

If I normally have ::gentoo, ::gentoo-x86, and 3 or 4 overlays, how easy
is it to wipe out everything except ::gentoo-x86 using PORTAGE_REPOSITORIES?



  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-26 14:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-07 15:09 [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var Peter Humphrey
2014-10-07 15:29 ` Bruce Schultz
2014-10-07 15:39   ` Peter Humphrey
2014-10-07 16:08     ` Neil Bothwick
2014-10-07 21:48       ` Mick
2014-10-07 21:56         ` Mike Gilbert
2014-10-07 22:03           ` Mick
2014-10-25 13:57             ` Tanstaafl
2014-10-25 16:45               ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-10-25 17:49                 ` Mick
2014-10-25 17:59                   ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-10-26 14:02                     ` [gentoo-user] " Martin Vaeth
2014-10-26 14:46                       ` Michael Orlitzky [this message]
2014-10-26  8:56                 ` [gentoo-user] " Peter Humphrey
2014-10-27 15:45                 ` Tanstaafl
2014-10-27 19:06                   ` Alan McKinnon
2014-10-27 20:05                     ` Mike Gilbert
2014-10-29 11:37                       ` [gentoo-user] " Martin Vaeth
2014-10-30 11:17                         ` [gentoo-user] Switch from PORTDIR and PORTDIR_OVERLAY to repos.conf - WAS: " Tanstaafl
2014-10-08 11:36           ` [gentoo-user] " Tanstaafl
2014-10-07 15:37 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-10-07 15:57 ` Tomas Mozes
2014-10-07 16:02   ` Tomas Mozes

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