Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided location question

2005-09-10 Thread Chris Boot 


On 10 Sep 2005, at 16:15, Mark Knecht wrote:


Hi,
   Generic question - why is package.provided located in
/etc/make.profile instead of in /etc/portage? Won't l lose my edits
when profile changes come along?

   It seems to me that if I take responsibility for a package, such as
jack-audio-connection-kit, that I wouldn't want the system to take
responsibility for it later on when a profile change comes along.

   package.provided is a great feature. I would have killed for this
on my old Redhat systems.

Thanks,
Mark


Yes, if you keep package.provided in /etc/make.profile it will get  
overwritten at every sync. The proper place to put your overrides is  
in /etc/portage/profile, which took me a good while to figure out...


Indeed it is rather nice :-)

HTH,
Chris

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Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided location question

2005-09-10 Thread Mark Knecht 
On 9/10/05, Chris Boot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 On 10 Sep 2005, at 16:15, Mark Knecht wrote:
 
  Hi,
 Generic question - why is package.provided located in
  /etc/make.profile instead of in /etc/portage? Won't l lose my edits
  when profile changes come along?
 
 It seems to me that if I take responsibility for a package, such as
  jack-audio-connection-kit, that I wouldn't want the system to take
  responsibility for it later on when a profile change comes along.
 
 package.provided is a great feature. I would have killed for this
  on my old Redhat systems.
 
  Thanks,
  Mark
 
 Yes, if you keep package.provided in /etc/make.profile it will get
 overwritten at every sync. The proper place to put your overrides is
 in /etc/portage/profile, which took me a good while to figure out...
 
 Indeed it is rather nice :-)
 
 HTH,
 Chris
 

Hi Chris,
   Thanks. That seems to work and is indeed a much better place to put
it. I did not see that in the man pages (is it there?) so I appreciate
the pointer.

Cheers,
Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided location question

2005-09-10 Thread Neil Bothwick 
On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:50:24 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:

Thanks. That seems to work and is indeed a much better place to put
 it. I did not see that in the man pages (is it there?) so I appreciate
 the pointer.

It's buried in the portage man page. Basically, what you put
in /etc/portage/profile overrules the settings from /etc/make.profile.


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Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided location question

2005-09-10 Thread Mark Knecht 
On 9/10/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:50:24 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
 
 Thanks. That seems to work and is indeed a much better place to put
  it. I did not see that in the man pages (is it there?) so I appreciate
  the pointer.
 
 It's buried in the portage man page. Basically, what you put
 in /etc/portage/profile overrules the settings from /etc/make.profile.
 
It's a great feature and I'm glad my question wasn't brain dead. It
made sense that my changes go somewhere personal. I just didn't see
it.

It all works great now. 

Thanks!

- Mark

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