Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...]
>> I wanted to use `./configure --enable-rootcommit' (or similar) since >> this is a single user machine. > > EXTRA_ECONF="--enable-rootcommit" emerge cvs > > usually works, although not all ebuilds respect $EXTRA_ECONF. Can you make an educated guess about that? I mean is it a pretty high percentage that allow that env flag? >> It didn't seem worth learning to build my own ebuild so I built it >> from tar.gz and installed on /usr/local. Then unmerged the existing >> cvs installation. Now as I recall there is some syntax that needs to go >> into one of the possible files under /etc/portage to cause future >> emerges like the upcoming update to ignore cvs, but I've forgotten >> it. > > The file you need is /etc/portage/profile/package.provided, it is > documented in the portage manpage. > > echo "dev-util/cvs-x.y.z" >>/etc/portage/profile/package.provided > > should do it, where x.y.z is the version you have installed. That is good info even though it is apparently readily available .. I've left it here just in case it helps one other reader notice the usefullness of that -- [email protected] mailing list
