On Monday 18 July 2005 06:57, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 22:07 -0700, Anthony Gorecki wrote: > > On Sunday, July 17, 2005 9:26 pm, Casey Allen Shobe wrote: > > > I'm also a bit confused about the portdir_overlay thing - If > > > there exists a -r15, do I then add a -r16 to make emerge > > > realize an update is available. What happens then when an > > > -r16 hits the regular portage tree? > > > > Nothing at all. If there's a conflict between the standard tree > > and your overlay, the ebuild in the overlay takes priority. > > In other words, something very important: You miss all the > potentially critical changes contained in the new "official" > revision.
So if I read correctly, when using an overlay, just don't change the version number - a rebuild will be sufficient to use the overlay version. Righto. Cheers, -- Casey Allen Shobe | http://casey.shobe.info [EMAIL PROTECTED] | cell 425-443-4653 AIM & Yahoo: SomeLinuxGuy | ICQ: 1494523 SeattleServer.com, Inc. | http://www.seattleserver.com -- [email protected] mailing list
