* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Precedence order of overlays
@ 2007-02-02 16:01 99% ` Alan McKinnon
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From: Alan McKinnon @ 2007-02-02 16:01 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Friday 02 February 2007, Harm Geerts wrote:
> On Friday 02 February 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > I want to guarantee that foo-9999.ebuild in /usr/local/portage will
> > be emerged in preference to an identically named and versioned
> > ebuild in layman. How do I do that?
> >
> > If I can't guarantee this, I'd also be happy bumping my ebuilds to
> > foo-99999.ebuild, but I'd rather do it with a config option if
> > possible.
>
> This is controlled by the order in which they apear in
> PORTDIR_OVERLAY. The last overlay that matches a package takes
> precedence.
Thanks for this, but Bo beat you to the correct answer by 6 minutes :-)
I think I'll make a suggestion to the appropriate maintainer to have
this documented in man 5 make.conf
alan
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