Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] ebuild/emerge lookup category differently?
Solved. I was missing the profiles/ dir in the build env. (a temp folder, which is wiped-clean before the build). Your reply gave me a lead. Thanks, Amit Zac Medico wrote: Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Hi. In my overlay, I can have packages assigned to a private category, and have that category specified in profiles/categories, under the overlay itself. However, in-order to ebuild such a package I have to append the category to /etc/portage/categories, else I get an error message: !!! 'priv-cat/mypkg' has a category that is not listed in /etc/portage/categories Is that intended? No, but if works for me here (in profiles/categories, under the overlay itself). So, I wonder what's different about your system. Are you sure that you spelled the category correctly? You can get a list of valid categories like this: python -c 'import portage; print portage.settings.categories' Does your category show in that list? Amit
Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] ebuild/emerge lookup category differently?
Amit Dor-Shifer ami...@oversi.com wrote: Hi. In my overlay, I can have packages assigned to a private category, and have that category specified in profiles/categories, under the overlay itself. However, in-order to ebuild such a package I have to append the category to /etc/portage/categories, else I get an error message: !!! 'priv-cat/mypkg' has a category that is not listed in /etc/portage/categories You can also put the name of the category in /path/to/overlay/profiles/categories to eliminate the error message. That seems a bit more appropriate, since it allows you to edit the overlay without mucking around in /etc. Also, if you publish your overlay or sync it to several of your own machines, you or your users don't need to edit anything when the overlay changes. -- Batou: Hey, Major... You ever hear of human rights? Kusanagi: I understand the concept, but I've never seen it in action. --Ghost in the Shell
Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] ebuild/emerge lookup category differently?
Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Hi. In my overlay, I can have packages assigned to a private category, and have that category specified in profiles/categories, under the overlay itself. However, in-order to ebuild such a package I have to append the category to /etc/portage/categories, else I get an error message: !!! 'priv-cat/mypkg' has a category that is not listed in /etc/portage/categories Is that intended? No, but if works for me here (in profiles/categories, under the overlay itself). So, I wonder what's different about your system. Are you sure that you spelled the category correctly? You can get a list of valid categories like this: python -c 'import portage; print portage.settings.categories' Does your category show in that list? Amit -- Thanks, Zac
