> > > This is against the idea of an overlay: If you want only cerain
> > > packages copy them into your local overlay and do not add the whole
> > > overlay to portage. (But you might get troubles if you do not use
> > > eclasses or other ebuilds from the overlay which might contain
> > > corresponding patches).
> >
> > Surely you can see the value in finding an ebuild for a package you like
> > that isn't in portage, adding the overlay associated with that ebuild
> > via layman, somehow specifying that you only want that package from the
> > overlay, and running 'layman -S' to stay on top of version bumps. If I
> > understand your suggestion correctly, it would involve manually checking
> > for version bumps and recopying them into the local overlay. That
> > doesn't seem very Gentoo.
>
> Agreed. I may not want to add the whole overlay. That's fine for things
> like the kde or vmware overlays that have a specific focus, but sometimes
> I find a package I want isn't in portage but is in an overlay, but adding
> that overlay pulls in all sorts of other packages, sometimes beta or
> unstable versions.
>
> However, the idea of setting overlay order sounds interesting as it would
> at least solve part of the problem. For now, symlinking rather than
> copying, which I tried before, at least keeps things up to date.
According to Helmut, symlinking isn't working as well as it used to due to new
EAPIs and new eclasses. I'm getting missing digest errors when I try it:
* Missing digest for
'/usr/local/portage/sys-kernel/geek-sources/geek-sources-3.7.0.ebuild'
* Missing digest for
'/usr/local/portage/sys-kernel/geek-sources/geek-sources-3.6.10.ebuild'
* Missing digest for
'/usr/local/portage/sys-kernel/geek-sources/geek-sources-3.5.7.ebuild'
I'm also getting this from eix-test-obsolete and not sure why:
Installed packages with a version not in the database (or masked):
[D] sys-kernel/geek-sources (3.6.10(3.6.10){tbz2}[2]@12/11/12 ->
~3.4.19(3.4.19)^mbs[1] ~3.4.21(3.4.21)^mbs[2] ~3.5.7(3.5.7)^mbs[2]
~3.6.8(3.6.8)^mbs{tbz2}[2] ~3.6.9(3.6.9)^mbs{tbz2}[2])
I've run 'eix-remote update' and I
have /var/lib/layman/init6/sys-kernel/geek-sources/geek-sources-3.6.10.ebuild.
Is the warning triggered from */*::init6 in package.mask even though I
have sys-kernel/geek-sources::init6 in package.unmask? If so, which test
should I disable for this one?
- Grant
