On Mon, 21 May 2007, Petteri Räty wrote: > > That's what I figured. Okay, last question - how do I stop emerge trying > > to update the compiler-less systems to include development tools like gcc? > > I presume tweaking the profile is the way to do it. Is there a stock > > profile that already has these excluded? > > I think /etc/portage/profile/package.provided could work.
It looks like it might, but you've got to specify packages with version numbers. I could see lots of fun and games when newer versions are added to portage or called as dependancies. Keeping this file up to date with the version numbers required would make the process rather tiresome. That said, it's something that could probably be scripted (run a dummy emerge on the portage tree and parse the output for any new installs of gcc, binutils, etc), and if something did slip through, the corresponding binaries shouldn't be on the binhost. -Ronan
