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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Selective sync of layman overlays?
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:29:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <58965d8a0906240929w6a66a699h2c963a17731e1591@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090624165226.3b976d87@zaphod.digimed.co.uk>

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Neil Bothwick<neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:31:59 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
>
>> Often times there's 1 or 2 packages I want from an overlay, but don't
>> want the entire overlay. Is there a way to do a selective sync of a
>> layman overlay? By that I mean tell layman to only sync certain
>> directories and their contents.
>
> The way I do this is I add the overlays in layman but do not add them
> to make.conf. Then I symlink individual directories from the layman
> overlay directory to my local overlay, which is in make.conf. That way
> I keep up to date with the one or two packages I need without pulling
> in the whole overlay.

That's a great idea, I'll give it a shot. Thanks!



      reply	other threads:[~2009-06-24 16:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-24 15:31 [gentoo-user] Selective sync of layman overlays? Paul Hartman
2009-06-24 15:52 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-06-24 16:29   ` Paul Hartman [this message]

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