From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S00zM-000289-DC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:27:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6983BE1A73; Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:27:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f181.google.com (mail-we0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D06F4E14E8 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:26:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by werp13 with SMTP id p13so5186550wer.40 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:26:14 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of markknecht@gmail.com designates 10.180.86.198 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.180.86.198; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of markknecht@gmail.com designates 10.180.86.198 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=markknecht@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=markknecht@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.180.86.198]) by 10.180.86.198 with SMTP id r6mr31296357wiz.22.1329873974131 (num_hops = 1); Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:26:14 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=yzRt7Vl0cIMjPQMyvN32DCjZ+7PswVxJIUlAvsRCuUI=; b=ktccCwg1Wfj9ExrK8eAF1DGiHQgl8w0oNlWTBbD40gDYNCnLw9RfsYkCQgB3uWxJNS B2WwxvoQLHAdn4Hrrr5bOW51CN3T+Wm77SNNmgLncE9xXG3WCp2C73L2mLfmo7yg/N70 QZobE4QLz+KzuzU4lNz0SurLaQjBrqktx5/q8= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.86.198 with SMTP id r6mr26135954wiz.22.1329873974099; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:26:14 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.4.154 with HTTP; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:26:14 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:26:14 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mask all packages but 1 from an overlay? From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: df05bb8b-fe89-42ce-96c9-55d86035a224 X-Archives-Hash: 0127104c5ad3510b387c1073ea9c941f On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Grant wrote: >>> Can I mask all packages from a layman overlay except for one? >> >> Check out Mark Knecht's thread from 5 hours ago asking the same question= . :) > > Ouch, sorry. =C2=A0I bet he was doing the exact same thing I'm doing. =C2= =A0Darn > poppler, eh Mark! =C2=A0The version number is the same so you can't mask = it > out even temporarily. > >> Short answer was don't let portage see the overlay, instead symlink >> the packages you want to your local overlay instead, so only they will >> be seen by portage, while still allowing you to sync the overlay as >> usual. > > Based on that info, I just copied it into /usr/local/portage. =C2=A0It's > hal so I don't think there is to much likelihood of an update. > > - Grant > Hi Grant, That's funny! Both of us asking the same thing on the same day. In my case it wasn't poplar. I use the init6 overlay to get handbrake but I started noticing that there are a number of other things my system was pulling in from init6, like nvidia-settings, which I didn't want it to pull in. I want to get everything I need and can get from the standard repository from the standard repository. I only want to go to the overlay when I absolutely need to and it's not clear to me when there's a duplication between the standard repository and whatever an overlay points at which one emerge choses. Good luck with your overlay stuff. I'm going to try Neil's idea later this week and see how it goes. Cheers, Mark