Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided syntax for overlay

2017-02-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 19 Feb 2017 11:17:11 +, Mick wrote: > > Another option is to copy/symlink the specific package you want from > > the bar overlay to your local overlay and do not include the bar > > overlay in repos.conf. > > Sorry for being dense. Do you mean first add the overlay with 'layman >

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided syntax for overlay

2017-02-19 Thread Mick
On Sunday 19 Feb 2017 10:50:31 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 19 Feb 2017 11:45:27 +0100, Johannes Rosenberger wrote: > > > So I tried in /etc/portage/package.provided any combination of these: > > > > > > x11-wm/enlightenment-:0.17/::bar > > > > > > =x11-wm/enlightenment-:0.17 > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided syntax for overlay

2017-02-19 Thread Mick
On Sunday 19 Feb 2017 11:45:27 Johannes Rosenberger wrote: > On 19.02.2017 11:20, Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Given sddm is not working for my setup, as per bug #608690, I thought of > > trying entrance from the bar overlay. It wants to pull in enlightenment, > > which I have already

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided syntax for overlay

2017-02-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 19 Feb 2017 11:45:27 +0100, Johannes Rosenberger wrote: > > So I tried in /etc/portage/package.provided any combination of these: > > > > x11-wm/enlightenment-:0.17/::bar > > > > =x11-wm/enlightenment-:0.17 > > > > x11-wm/enlightenment- > > > > None of which can stop

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided syntax for overlay

2017-02-19 Thread Johannes Rosenberger
On 19.02.2017 11:20, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > Given sddm is not working for my setup, as per bug #608690, I thought of > trying entrance from the bar overlay. It wants to pull in enlightenment, > which I have already installed from the main tree and would like to keep it > as > such: > > #

[gentoo-user] package.provided syntax for overlay

2017-02-19 Thread Mick
Hi All, Given sddm is not working for my setup, as per bug #608690, I thought of trying entrance from the bar overlay. It wants to pull in enlightenment, which I have already installed from the main tree and would like to keep it as such: # emerge -uaDv entrance These are the packages that

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided?

2017-02-14 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Harry Putnam wrote: Setup: Installing X on Vbox vm runnning gentoo (amd64 not strict). Host is win10 (64bit) Installing the xorg-server is calling for the installation of app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-5.0.32 However, my version of vbox is for a windows host (5.1.14). And

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided?

2017-02-14 Thread Johannes Rosenberger
On 14.02.2017 16:09, Harry Putnam wrote: > Setup: > >Installing X on Vbox vm runnning gentoo (amd64 not strict). Host >is win10 (64bit) > > Installing the xorg-server is calling for the installation of > app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-5.0.32 > > However, my version of vbox is

[gentoo-user] package.provided?

2017-02-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup: Installing X on Vbox vm runnning gentoo (amd64 not strict). Host is win10 (64bit) Installing the xorg-server is calling for the installation of app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-5.0.32 However, my version of vbox is for a windows host (5.1.14). And actually has the guest

[gentoo-user] package.provided messes up emerging of package slots?

2011-09-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
In my /etc/portage/profile/package.provided, I have this: media-libs/freetype-1.4_pre20080316-r2 When I try to emerge freetype however, instead of emerging the newer version, I get: $ emerge freetype WARNING: A requested package will not be merged because it is listed in

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided messes up emerging of package slots?

2011-09-12 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sep 12, 2011 11:11 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: In my /etc/portage/profile/package.provided, I have this: media-libs/freetype-1.4_pre20080316-r2 When I try to emerge freetype however, instead of emerging the newer version, I get: $ emerge freetype WARNING: A

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided messes up emerging of package slots?

2011-09-12 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
On Monday, 12. September 2011 18:41:37 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: In my /etc/portage/profile/package.provided, I have this: media-libs/freetype-1.4_pre20080316-r2 When I try to emerge freetype however, instead of emerging the newer version, I get: $ emerge freetype WARNING: A

[gentoo-user] package.provided

2008-01-08 Thread Daniel Iliev
Hi, I want to compile mplayer in a way not supported by the ebuild and use portage only to keep record of the files installed in system for future uninstallation. The system amd64 stable. I have done the following: (1) echo media-video/mplayer /etc/portage/package.keywords // emerge -p

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2008-01-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Daniel Iliev wrote: Hi, I want to compile mplayer in a way not supported by the ebuild and use portage only to keep record of the files installed in system for future uninstallation. A much better way would be to modify the ebuild to do what you want, then copy

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2008-01-08 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 14:35:27 +0200 Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to compile mplayer in a way not supported by the ebuild and use portage only to keep record of the files installed in system for future uninstallation. The system amd64 stable. I have done the following: (1)

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2008-01-08 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:11:09 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A much better way would be to modify the ebuild to do what you want, then copy it to a local overlay. Portage will use your overlay in preference to the portage tree. You just have to then watch out for newer

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2008-01-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Daniel Iliev wrote: On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:11:09 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A much better way would be to modify the ebuild to do what you want, then copy it to a local overlay. Portage will use your overlay in preference to the portage tree.

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2008-01-08 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 20:23:58 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Daniel Iliev wrote: On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:11:09 +0200 --snip-- Am I correct in saying you plan to emerge mplayer with a few extra params and not much else customizing? In that case the mods

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2008-01-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 14:35:27 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote: (1) echo media-video/mplayer /etc/portage/package.keywords This just causes portage to use the testing, ~arch version of the program (2) echo media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p24929-r2 /etc/portage/package.provided This should be

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2008-01-08 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On January 8, 2008, Daniel Iliev wrote: On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 20:23:58 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Daniel Iliev wrote: On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:11:09 +0200 --snip-- Am I correct in saying you plan to emerge mplayer with a few extra params and

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2008-01-08 Thread Kenneth Prugh
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 14:35:27 +0200 Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to compile mplayer in a way not supported by the ebuild and use portage only to keep record of the files installed in system for future uninstallation. The system amd64 stable. I have done the

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2008-01-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 23:20:02 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote: Actually the changes I want to make are not so few. The whole story is that several days ago a friend of mine pointed me to a very cool front-end for mplayer: http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/ Unfortunately it can't be found in portage

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2007-05-09 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 08 May 2007 13:13:05 -0700 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Iliev wrote: Following the official docs [1] I did echo x11-wm/aquamarine-0.2.1 /etc/portage/profile/package.provided but it doesn't seem to help. The way that emerge currently behaves, that won't help if

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2007-05-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 12:22 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: On Tue, 08 May 2007 13:13:05 -0700 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Iliev wrote: Following the official docs [1] I did echo x11-wm/aquamarine-0.2.1 /etc/portage/profile/package.provided but it doesn't seem to

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2007-05-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 09 May 2007 23:23:54 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: Following the official docs [1] I did echo x11-wm/aquamarine-0.2.1 /etc/portage/profile/package.provided but it doesn't seem to help. should there be a = before the package name? No, not for package.provided. --

[gentoo-user] package.provided

2007-05-08 Thread Daniel Iliev
Hi, list I have x11-wm/beryl-0.2.1 installed on a stable system. One of its dependencies is ~x11-wm/aquamarine-0.2.1 which dies during compilation. This is fine with me because I installed beryl issuing: emerge --resume --skipfirst and it works OK. My problem is that portage wants to pull in

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2007-05-08 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
I have x11-wm/beryl-0.2.1 installed on a stable system. One of its dependencies is ~x11-wm/aquamarine-0.2.1 which dies during compilation. This is fine with me because I installed beryl issuing: emerge --resume --skipfirst and it works OK. My problem is that portage wants to pull in aquamarine

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2007-05-08 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 8 May 2007 17:39:17 +0200 Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have x11-wm/beryl-0.2.1 installed on a stable system. One of its dependencies is ~x11-wm/aquamarine-0.2.1 which dies during compilation. This is fine with me because I installed beryl issuing: emerge --resume

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2007-05-08 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Iliev wrote: Following the official docs [1] I did echo x11-wm/aquamarine-0.2.1 /etc/portage/profile/package.provided but it doesn't seem to help. The way that emerge currently behaves, that won't help if aquamarine is listed in

proper use of package.provided (was: Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided)

2006-07-20 Thread Jeremy Olexa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Donnie Berkholz wrote: Jeremy Olexa wrote: Great, I knew there must be a solution for this issue. Thanks for interpreting the man page for me ;) Perhaps it could be more clear what site-specific overrides means but now I know. Thanks again.

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2006-07-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 20:22:54 -0500, Jeremy Olexa wrote: Is there any other solution to the /etc/make.profile/package.provided file? As we all know the /usr/portage/ dir gets wiped of custom files on every sync. It seems kinda silly that there is a package.provided solution but it gets wiped

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2006-07-17 Thread Jeremy Olexa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 20:22:54 -0500, Jeremy Olexa wrote: Is there any other solution to the /etc/make.profile/package.provided file? As we all know the /usr/portage/ dir gets wiped of custom files on every sync. It seems

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2006-07-17 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Jeremy Olexa wrote: Great, I knew there must be a solution for this issue. Thanks for interpreting the man page for me ;) Perhaps it could be more clear what site-specific overrides means but now I know. Thanks again. Could you suggest wording that would make it more clear to you? There's no

[gentoo-user] package.provided

2006-07-16 Thread Jeremy Olexa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Is there any other solution to the /etc/make.profile/package.provided file? As we all know the /usr/portage/ dir gets wiped of custom files on every sync. It seems kinda silly that there is a package.provided solution but it gets wiped every time,

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2006-07-16 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Check out /etc/make.conf - that will override some settings. You aren't supposed to mess with the make.profile - it's a defalt that all else is based on. On Sunday July 16 2006 21:22, Jeremy Olexa wrote: Hi, Is there any other solution to the /etc/make.profile/package.provided file? As we

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided

2006-07-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 08:22:54PM -0500, Penguin Lover Jeremy Olexa squawked: Hi, Is there any other solution to the /etc/make.profile/package.provided file? As we all know the /usr/portage/ dir gets wiped of custom files on every sync. It seems kinda silly that there is a package.provided

[gentoo-user] package.provided syntax

2006-03-06 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm currently trying to get thru an emerge -vuD world but having various things crop up. Some I thought were handled long ago like this overlooking what is in package.provided: rsnapshot-1.2.2 bacula-1.48.5 cvs-emacs-24 The last two are fake versions so they would stay ahead of what ever

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided syntax

2006-03-06 Thread Dave Nebinger
Harry Putnam wrote: in package.provided: cvs-emacs-24 [snip] emerge -vuDp app-editors/emacs-cvs Don't you see that cvs-emacs is not the same as emacs-cvs, or was this just a typo on your part? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided syntax

2006-03-06 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harry Putnam wrote: I'm currently trying to get thru an emerge -vuD world but having various things crop up. Some I thought were handled long ago like this overlooking what is in package.provided: rsnapshot-1.2.2 bacula-1.48.5

[gentoo-user] package.provided location question

2005-09-10 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Generic question - why is package.provided located in /etc/make.profile instead of in /etc/portage? Won't l lose my edits when profile changes come along? It seems to me that if I take responsibility for a package, such as jack-audio-connection-kit, that I wouldn't want the system to

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided location question

2005-09-10 Thread Chris Boot
On 10 Sep 2005, at 16:15, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, Generic question - why is package.provided located in /etc/make.profile instead of in /etc/portage? Won't l lose my edits when profile changes come along? It seems to me that if I take responsibility for a package, such as

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided location question

2005-09-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/10/05, Chris Boot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10 Sep 2005, at 16:15, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, Generic question - why is package.provided located in /etc/make.profile instead of in /etc/portage? Won't l lose my edits when profile changes come along? It seems to me that if

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided location question

2005-09-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:50:24 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks. That seems to work and is indeed a much better place to put it. I did not see that in the man pages (is it there?) so I appreciate the pointer. It's buried in the portage man page. Basically, what you put in

Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided location question

2005-09-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/10/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:50:24 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks. That seems to work and is indeed a much better place to put it. I did not see that in the man pages (is it there?) so I appreciate the pointer. It's buried in the