On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:06:45 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm about to run an update world following a sync and I noitce that > cvs is one of the packages involved. I couldn't remember how to make > emerge use a specific ./configure flag. Not sure I ever really > understood that whole business anyway, although Holly and others have > attempted to explain it to me. > > I wanted to use `./configure --enable-rootcommit' (or similar) since > this is a single user machine. EXTRA_ECONF="--enable-rootcommit" emerge cvs usually works, although not all ebuilds respect $EXTRA_ECONF. > It didn't seem worth learning to build my own ebuild so I built it > from tar.gz and installed on /usr/local. Then unmerged the existing > cvs installation. Now as I recall there is some syntax that needs to go > into one of the possible files under /etc/portage to cause future > emerges like the upcoming update to ignore cvs, but I've forgotten > it. The file you need is /etc/portage/profile/package.provided, it is documented in the portage manpage. echo "dev-util/cvs-x.y.z" >>/etc/portage/profile/package.provided should do it, where x.y.z is the version you have installed. -- Neil Bothwick Unsolicited advice is the junk mail of life
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