On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:42:05 +1200 John Huttley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to install a patched version of evms. > In portage i'd just set up an overlay, hack the ebuild to increment > the -rX number and emerge away. > > Of course paludis has much more elegant ways of doing this. > But it doesn't tell you what they are.
Use -rX.1 for local things. And for local repositories, you need profiles/repo_name over what Portage expects. If you don't use master_repository = gentoo, you also need all the supporting repository files (categories, arch.list, thirdpartymirrors etc). > After sweating through man pages and all the stuff on the web page, I > have to note that there is no user guide. Right. Because a) no-one's written one and b) at this point we don't have the manpower to handle too many support requests from people who don't read man pages, the faq etc (not aimed at you here, you clearly did do that). > I've created /var/portage-local > > created local.conf mostly as copy of gentoo.conf. > No sync and it has importance=1 master_repository=gentoo is probably what you're missing. You need location, format, master_repository. > Ok, so ./profiles must exist, why I can't imagine. > Ok so ./profiles/repo_name must exist as a file, I put "local" in > it. Hopefully that will match the local.conf. > There is no documentation that I could find concerning that. http://paludis.pioto.org/faq.html#repo_name > Now it is moaning about categories. If you use master_repository it gets the categories list from the master. Otherwise you need profiles/categories too. > After discovering the "importance" keyword, I thought that was it. > "A>B>C">. Set the keyword in each repository and "paludis -i" importance is used to select the repository, but only if there are multiple identical versions of the same package available. The ::repo suffix can be used to request specific repositories, and also for, for example, unmasking a package only from a particular repository. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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