A question about using Gentoo's "meta-distribution" aspect: I'm about to use a local meta-ebuild to deploy a set of applications across a group of servers. I'd rather not add this ebuild to an existing package directory -- I'd rather use "app-$mycompanyname" -- but when I do so, I see that portage doesn't know about the new package directory when I do an emerge -s $myappname. This isn't a big deal in and of itself, since the ebuild seems to merge and unmerge without problems, but is there a way I can locally add a new package directory so that portage fully knows about it? Can I do so in such a way that an emerge rsync won't lose that information? And if not, I am going to run into other problems by using an unsupported pkg location?
Thanks, Jacob Smullyan
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