Force merge of masked ebuilds

gsfgf · Veteran Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 1266

Portage needs some method of forcing merges of masked ebuilds. My method if renaming package.mask works, but is probobly not the best.

If this has already been posted, sorry. I looked, but didn;t find it.

delta407 · Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2002 12:22 am Post subject:

Well, yeah, just open up package.mask and comment out the offending lines.

Or, we could make a package.mask.mask, so we can still emerge rsync --clean without having to recomment stuff... heh.

Scrapz · n00b Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 21

That would be a good idea. Something like emerge --mask filename - the --mask bit to say that it is masked and it should check package.mask for more info... or something. I like that idea

TTFN,
Scrapz :wink:

jabuka · Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2002 7:07 pm Post subject:

i like the emerge --mask filename idea. with the rapid progress portage has been making lately, i'm sure a feature like this is bound to show up in the near future.

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