On 02/17/2012 11:18 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:01:36 +0100 > Raffaele BELARDI <raffaele.bela...@st.com> wrote: >> The change was done in the mythtv overlay >> (/usr/local/mythtv_portage/), would that be overwritten by a resync? >> I understood that overlay gets updated only when there is a mythtv >> update upstream. > > It will be overwritten with every layman update/resync > > layman will notice that you have a file that is different from the repo > and will revert it, and you cannot stop this happening. It does not > depend on whether the remote file has changed, it only depends on you > locally having a file that is different to the repo. > > Seriously, the gentoo docs are full or warning to not do what you did. > Use the local overlay, it was designed for exactly this purpose.
I'm probably oversimplifying because I don't know much about overlays. I'm not using layman at all but I am using a local overlay for mythtv. >From what I understand the 'overlayed' mythtv ebuild is responsible for the overlay update though a script installed in /etc/portage/postsync.d/ which basically performs a 'git pull'. So unless there is a new git snapshot upstream the modified ebuild will not get overwritten, correct? raf
