Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with Portage profile override

2010-02-22 Thread hb-xxl
On 21.02.2010 20:18, Neil Bothwick wrote: Does --tree show what is trying to pull it in? No. It does only say world or system. Some command outputs appended to clarify the problem. $ emerge -v -t -p -u -D world These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with Portage profile override

2010-02-22 Thread hb-xxl
On 21.02.2010 20:07, Paul Colquhoun wrote: Have you tried making an ebuild for 1.16 and putting it in /usr/local/portage directory? That way you won't be fighting with portage about what version to install. No. I'm fairly new to gentoo and the ebuild system. Currently I don't know much

[gentoo-user] Problem with Portage profile override

2010-02-21 Thread hb-xxl
Hi! I do have a problem using /etc/portage/profile/package.provided. At first I added some other packages to this file and got the expected functionality. Then I added sys-apps/busybox-1.16 to package.provided. It works and portage detects the entry on an emerge, but it prints a big fat warning,

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with Portage profile override

2010-02-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:54:16 +0100, hb-...@web.de wrote: I do have a problem using /etc/portage/profile/package.provided. At first I added some other packages to this file and got the expected functionality. Then I added sys-apps/busybox-1.16 to package.provided. It works and portage detects

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with Portage profile override

2010-02-21 Thread hb-xxl
On 21.02.2010 16:31, Neil Bothwick wrote: package.provided is the wrong file. Your problem is caused by busybox being in @system, which is a subset of @world. That's why you see the message about it being in world even though it is not in the world file. To remove it from @system, add

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with Portage profile override

2010-02-21 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:58:33 hb-...@web.de wrote: On 21.02.2010 16:31, Neil Bothwick wrote: package.provided is the wrong file. Your problem is caused by busybox being in @system, which is a subset of @world. That's why you see the message about it being in world even though it is not in

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with Portage profile override

2010-02-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:58:33 +0100, hb-...@web.de wrote: I tried this before I posted my question and did it again now ... sorry, no ... this doesn't solve the problem. It doesn't matter if /etc/portage/profile/packages (tried packages. too, just to be sure) contains -sys-apps/busybox or not,