From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] How to instruct emerge to leave certain stuff alone
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 21:18:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r7cdtric.fsf@newsguy.com> (raw)
I just ran an emerge world -u and at the beginning there were some
errors/warnings about my lines in
/etc/portage/profile/package.provided
I didn't save the error but it indicate my file would be ignored.
It contained
dev-util/cvs
app-editors/emacs-cvs
I didn't want the emerge to mess with emacs. I build my own for yrs
now. However rather than investigate and fix, I just commented the
line out and proceeded.
Emerge installed the latest emacs and even overwrote my .emacs-custom
file. (Which seems it should not have, if it found one)
But what I want here now is to know how to handle this in the future.
That is, how to tell emerge that I want certain packages ignored or
left to me.
Last time around those lines in package.provided were sufficient but
apparantly something has changed.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-29 2:18 Harry Putnam [this message]
2005-08-29 12:06 ` [gentoo-user] How to instruct emerge to leave certain stuff alone Alex
2005-08-29 9:39 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2005-08-29 9:53 ` Nagatoro
2005-08-29 13:17 ` Alex
2005-08-29 18:22 ` Neil Bothwick
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