From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E9ZMj-0001FE-Sb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 02:27:18 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7T2Oaoh009572; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 02:24:36 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7T2L3uJ023125 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 02:21:04 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E9ZIU-0006Zw-Dg for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 02:22:54 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1E9ZGQ-0008D4-1q for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 04:20:46 +0200 Received: from adsl-68-74-178-72.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net ([68.74.178.72]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 04:20:46 +0200 Received: from reader by adsl-68-74-178-72.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 04:20:46 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] How to instruct emerge to leave certain stuff alone Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 21:18:35 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87r7cdtric.fsf@newsguy.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-68-74-178-72.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VdYmH/aYOan0wZ9nJYHmXYvIqV4= Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 7b58c176-a582-4303-a7bf-8200a7dfe712 X-Archives-Hash: 69987b4e0d70c7e317e086d4868a9c18 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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list