Stoping portage from emerging et-2.60

cereal-chiller

Hi, I updated et to the latest version manually (by using the patch) instead of downloading the hole 300 MB file again. Now i want to tell portage i already have version 2.60, how do I do that?
I tried package.provided but i guess it only works for packages that have never been installed trhough emerge.
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BlackEdder · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 1:46 pm Post subject:

I think package.provided should do the trick, could you show us what you have in there (it is quite picky and badly documented). I gather you have it in the correct place (/etc/portage/profile).

cereal-chiller · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 2:07 pm Post subject:

BlackEdder · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 2:18 pm Post subject:

Did you also try emerge -u world. I have package.provided working, but emerge -p xorg-x11 will still want to install the latest version, but emerge -uD world doesn't want to update xorg-x11

cereal-chiller · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 4:21 pm Post subject:

No it's still there.

BlackEdder · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 4:24 pm Post subject:

You can mask the 2.60 version:

cereal-chiller · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 5:28 pm Post subject:

that did the trick, tnks

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Leander256 · l33t Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 910 Location: Singapour

I had the same problem with the vanilla-sources package, and I just found an hint on bugzilla: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67595

I just had to remove sys-kernel/vanilla-sources of my /var/lib/portage/world file and portage then took account of the line I had in /etc/portage/profile/package.provided .

HamishTPB · n00b Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 58 Location: Europe

Thanks for that Blackedder - I don't understand why they took away --inject when package.provided doesn't work properly

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