On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Neil Bothwick<n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:31:59 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> Often times there's 1 or 2 packages I want from an overlay, but don't >> want the entire overlay. Is there a way to do a selective sync of a >> layman overlay? By that I mean tell layman to only sync certain >> directories and their contents. > > The way I do this is I add the overlays in layman but do not add them > to make.conf. Then I symlink individual directories from the layman > overlay directory to my local overlay, which is in make.conf. That way > I keep up to date with the one or two packages I need without pulling > in the whole overlay.
That's a great idea, I'll give it a shot. Thanks!
