On Tuesday 31 March 2009 21:57:02 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > > So how can I mask just a specific ebuild from a specific overlay? > > This is not possible with current portage. I think with paludis you can > mask packages based on repositories, don't know about pkgcore though.
That's what I thought > You should be able to work around this by doing something like this in > /etc/make.conf > > PORTDIR="/your/port/dir" > PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/your/overlays $PORTDIR" > > This way portage prefers the the packages from the portage tree over > packages with equal versions in overlays. Yes, that works. Thanks for the pointer. It had never occurred to me to include PORTDIR in PORTDIR_OVERLAY :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
