On 30 March 2016 05:01:16 GMT+09:00, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote: >So, I want to install packages from an overlay, but only from a >specific >group. In this case, the dev-qt/ group. The overlay name is "qt". > >It doesn't work: > > package.mask: */*::qt > package.unmask: dev-qt/*-5.6*::qt > >With this, 5.6 versions are still masked. > >How do I do this?
The syntax for "5.6*"-like versions has an equals at the start, for example =dev-qt/qtbase-5.6*, so if it's allowed, =dev-qt/*-5.6*::qt would be the correct package.unmask syntax. Does that work? Cheers, Bryan