* Re: [gentoo-user] Using Portage/emerge
@ 2004-12-08 12:38 99% brettholcomb
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From: brettholcomb @ 2004-12-08 12:38 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
If you do an emerge qmail -pv it will tell you what flags are available but not actually do the install. These flags control what options are used when qmail is installed. For example, Pine has some patches that were controlled by flags so if the flag is set then the option gets compiled in. In some cases the patches are included anyway and you tell that by looking at the ebuild.
Check man portage with particular attention to the /etc/portage files to control what versions are installed.
>
> From: Magnus Johansson <rnd-gentoo@rnd.se>
> Date: 2004/12/08 Wed AM 10:21:27 GMT
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: [gentoo-user] Using Portage/emerge
>
> Hi!
>
> I'm very new to gentoo. I've installed qmail and wanted to use the same
> patches that I'm used to so I did it the old way, download source, patch
> and install. Now, how do I tell Portage/emerge that qmail is actually
> already installed? (How should I have done it?)
>
> Also, when doing an 'emerge -tDu world' I found that adding a specific
> version to the spamassassin entry in /var/lib/portage/world lets me keep
> spamassassin 3.0.1 but doing the same with openldap 2.2.19 doesn't. The
> reason for emerge wanting to downgrade is courier-imap but in
> courier-imap-3.0.8.ebuild it only says 'ldap? (
> >=net-nds/openldap-1.2.11 )' and 2.2.19 is >= 1.2.11 . How do I make
> emerge let me keep openldap 2.2.19?
>
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