Re: [gentoo-user] Introduce Manual manipulation during an emerge

[Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>]

On 12 Jun 2009, at 20:59, Harry Putnam wrote:
> ...
> For something like this it seems way overkill to have a separate
> custom /usr/local/portage where I build my own.  Especially since I
> find that whole process difficult and way overkill for this problem.
>
> Further its something that will almost certainly be fixed soon and
> won't be something I have to attend to again.

If you think that's the case then just mask the current version of  
procmail in /etc/portage/package.mask & remerge procmail. An older  
version without this bug will be installed & when an updated version  
is available portage will install it automagically.

I consider /usr/local/portage to be essential, because there's most  
always a package or three on my systems which I can't get through the  
regular tree, or which i wish to version bump myself. I don't consider  
this a hassle because I could create the updated ebuild with patch in  
a few minutes.

Because I most always check some reference resources when I do this, I  
can't quickly explain to you how to maintain this tree yourself. I  
think the time it would take you to learn this would be well-spent, as  
I'm sure you'll eventually need to use a /usr/local/portage package  
again in the future. Like I say, once you know how, it becomes easy.  
But if you consider it a hassle, just mask the buggy version of  
procmail & forget about the problem.

Stroller.