Hi All, I didn't have to do this before, so will need help to manage portage:
A particular package has been hard masked for removal. I would like to either move it in my local portage, or even better emerge a more recent version. So, I found an ebuild, modified it a bit and now I am trying to emerge it, but it seems that the package.mask won't let me: ========================================= !!! The following installed packages are masked: - app-pda/plptools-0.13 (masked by: package.mask) /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Jeremy Olexa <darks...@gentoo.org> (30 May 2009) # Masked for removal in 60 days. Doesn't build, version bump pending. Designed # for really old PDA hardware (circa '90s) - will need a maintainer that has # hardware. bug 227601 ========================================= I am trying to emerge v1.0.8, not 0.13 as shown above. Should the above mask stop me emerging it from my local overlay? How do I allow a local overlay emerge, while respecting portage's hard mask for ebuilds in the main tree only? -- Regards, Mick
