Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays - mask everything except a specific package?

2012-02-23 Thread Willie WY Wong
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 08:04:36PM +, Penguin Lover Neil Bothwick squawked: 2) Mask everything in an overlay except exactly what I actually want installed. The way I do this is to layman -a the overlay but not put it in make.conf. Then I symlink only the ebuilds I want to my local

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays - mask everything except a specific package?

2012-02-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:19:03 +0100, Willie WY Wong wrote: The way I do this is to layman -a the overlay but not put it in make.conf. Then I symlink only the ebuilds I want to my local overlay. By symlinking instead of copying, I automatically get updates to that package. Neat! I

[gentoo-user] Overlays - mask everything except a specific package?

2012-02-21 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm looking for a ways to: 1) List all contents of a specific overlay including version numbers. 2) Mask everything in an overlay except exactly what I actually want installed. Anyone know how to do this? For instance, I use the init6 overlay to get handbrake but I don't want to

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays - mask everything except a specific package?

2012-02-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:23:21 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm looking for a ways to: 1) List all contents of a specific overlay including version numbers. Run eix-remote update to add all layman overlays to eix's database, then you caqn use it to search specific overlays. 2) Mask

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays - mask everything except a specific package?

2012-02-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:23:21 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:    I'm looking for a ways to: 1) List all contents of a specific overlay including version numbers. Run eix-remote update to add all layman overlays to eix's