I had noticed that in the portage manpage but thought it meant I had to make my own profile. Guess not. Anyway, created /etc/portage/profile and placed package.provided there. Worked like a charm.
Thanks Zac. On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 12:53 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > > Since "emerge -inject" is depreciated, the way to tell emerge that a > > package is already installed is to list it in package.provided. > > > > It seems there is some confusion as to where package.provided should be > > placed. The portage man page talks about /etc/make.profile/ but I have > > seen other documentation (I believe in the gentoo wiki) which says put > > in /etc/portage/. > > > > The problem is that emerge ignores it in /etc/portage and "an emerge > > sync" removes it from /etc/make.profile/. > > > > So the question is: Where should it be placed? > > >From the portage manpage: > > /etc/portage/profile/ > site-specific overrides of /etc/make.profile/ > > Zac -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
