On 31/03/2013 22:24, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-03-31 3:56 PM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: >> On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:44:49 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: >> >>>> A copy of the ebuild for the*currently*installed* package is in >>>> /var/db/pkg/<cat>/<pkg>-<version>/*ebuild >>> >>> Oh... so I should use that instead of what is in /usr/portage/sys-fs? >> >> No, you only do that if the original is not available. Copy the whole >> sys-fs/udev directory to your overlay then remove the files you don't >> need > > Well, that presupposes I know what files I need and what files I don't > need... > > The problem is I don't... > > I can *guess* that all I need is the ebuild file, the files dir, and > maybe the Manifest and metadata.xml files... > >> and rebuild the manifest. > > Ok, I've done this, but it still wants to install udev-200... it also > mentions, and I confirmed, that udev-171 is masked in > /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask, so, presumably, I need to comment > these out too? > > This is getting really ugly.
No it's not. I see what you are running into from other replies. You have apparently not read the documentation on user overlays at gentoo.org. Please find and read that first. It contains everything you need to know. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
