Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 21 Apr 2023 03:58:11 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I did a emerge -ef nvidia-drivers and it still fails. I was hoping that >> would pick up the needed files. Guess not. I decided to do some more >> digging. I noticed that the same version is still in the tree. I >> copied the ebuild a while back to a local overlay to make sure I don't >> lose it. It seems emerge gives my local overlay priority over the one >> in the tree. I renamed the ebuild in my overlay with .old tacked on. >> It emerges fine after that since it uses the ebuild in the tree. It >> seems my overlay is broken somehow. Likely a design improvement. ;-) > That's the default by design. If you copy an ebuild to your overlay, it's > usually because you want to make changes to it, so it should be given > priority. You can change the priority of overlays in > /etc/portage/repos.conf, or you can simply mask the overlay version. > >
Found the needed info on the wiki and added the priority setting. I added "priority=100" which should work right? It will use the Gentoo tree first and then mine? That's my reading of the wiki page anyway. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
