Re: [gentoo-user] How to tell portage about manual builds

2007-12-09 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
on 12/07/2007 07:30 PM Mark Shields said the following: man portage snip package.provided A list of packages (one per line) that portage should assume have been provided. My impression is that /etc/portage/package.provided is ignored. If I execute #

Re: [gentoo-user] How to tell portage about manual builds

2007-12-09 Thread Aline de Freitas
Em Sunday 09 December 2007 10:25:03 Vladimir G. Ivanovic escreveu: on 12/07/2007 07:30 PM Mark Shields said the following: man portage snip package.provided A list of packages (one per line) that portage should assume have been provided. My impression

Re: [gentoo-user] How to tell portage about manual builds

2007-12-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:50:40 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: A lot of the bigger packages (qt, mythtv, etc. etc) tend to lock up my PCs' hard drives while they're emerging. I use FEATURES=keepwork on all my boxes, and I can usually go into

Re: [gentoo-user] How to tell portage about manual builds

2007-12-07 Thread Mark Shields
man portage snip package.provided A list of packages (one per line) that portage should assume have been provided. Useful for porting to non- Linux systems. Portage will not attempt to update a

[gentoo-user] How to tell portage about manual builds

2007-12-07 Thread Michael Sullivan
A lot of the bigger packages (qt, mythtv, etc. etc) tend to lock up my PCs' hard drives while they're emerging. I use FEATURES=keepwork on all my boxes, and I can usually go into /var/tmp/portage/whatever-class/whatever-package/work/whatever-package and issue a make and then make install after