On 2018-03-23 18:44, Patrick McLean wrote: > At my (and zmedico's) employer we use Gentoo heavily (all of our servers > run it), and have a few large internal overlays and hundreds of internal > profiles. There are packages in upstream Gentoo that we maintain an > internal fork of, and it would be extremely useful if we could mask the > ::gentoo version of something so a version bump does not cause it to be > installed instead of our forked version.
I have the same need, but it works for me: I have several packages in /etc/portage/package.mask directory with content like <cat>/<pkg>::gentoo to make sure the package from Gentoo repository isn't used. But I guess you are talking about a different thing? -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D5D 74A5
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