On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:23:21 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> I'm looking for a ways to: >> >> 1) List all contents of a specific overlay including version numbers. > > Run eix-remote update to add all layman overlays to eix's database, then > you caqn use it to search specific overlays. > >> 2) Mask everything in an overlay except exactly what I actually want >> installed. > > The way I do this is to layman -a the overlay but not put it in > make.conf. Then I symlink only the ebuilds I want to my local overlay. By > symlinking instead of copying, I automatically get updates to that > package. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick >
Interesting idea Neil. Thanks. - Mark
