Thanks Ciaran, I had seen the master_repository, but did not understand its significance. That seems to be the answer to all the questions doesn't it?
I'll get on to it tonight, Regards John Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > 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). > > <snip> _______________________________________________ Paludis-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/paludis-user
