On Friday 24 August 2007 18:49:38 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Sounds like you want to keep the old eclass around inside the overlay
> and let portage update ${PORTDIR}/eclass/* as it sees fit?
>
> I have this setup, I simply created an eclass directory in my overlay
> directory, added the ebuild to the overlay, and the ebuilds started
> using the overlay version of the eclass. Something like:
>
> /var/portage/local/alan/eclass/ is where I put my eclasses.
Uh, that will cause the eclasses in ${PORTDIR} to be overshadowed (just like
the same version of any ebuild in the overlay will overshadow the ebuilds in
${PORTDIR}. If you really want to keep two trees separate and use them both,
you should use a package manager that has proper support for multiple
repositories (like Paludis ;)...
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Bo Andresen
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