On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:08:37 -0400, John covici wrote:

>  > So what makes you think portage is ignoring them?

> Well, two things, -- I was trying to emerge a package which had a
> higher version in the overlay and which I had put in my
> /etc/portage/package.keywords file, but I got a reinstall of the
> existing package instead.  And second when it was working after the
> rebuild info it would say [1] <overlay directory>
> [2] <another overlay directory> but it is not saying that now.  Am I
> missing something here?

This would also happen if your package.keywords entry was incorrect. eix,
after running update-eix, should indicate overlay packages, even when
they have the same version number as in the main portage tree.


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Neil Bothwick

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