On 28/03/2017 04:12, tu...@posteo.de wrote:
Hi,
I want to mark some software as provided from other sources.
And want to prevent long comments from emerge and friends about
my doing so.
/etc/portage/profile/package.provided seems to be a good place for
that...but according to the documents, one needs to specifiy a version
and relational operators are not allowed...which make me think that
I have to mention any single version in past, current and future
existence to prevent emerge from installing a previous or current
version of that software for a longer time.
Thinking of some packages, which are getting updates very often I
see myself writing scripts to populate package.provided with a
lot of stuff and scripts to delete obsoleted entries from there.
If I put those packages into package.mask, emerge comments on
every update of the system, that "needed packages are masked".
Is there any clean way to get out of this?
Yes, don't do it.
package.provided is a horrible ugly hack to work behind portage's back
and subvert it.
What are these packages and why do you feel this solution is warranted?
If you really don't like some in-tree version of a package, rather spend
your time writing a local ebuild in an overlay than conjuring up
invisible magic scripts that are certain to break into millions of shiny
pieces
--
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckin...@gmail.com
