Why don't you mask versions higher than 5.7 instead? On Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 17:00 Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29/03/16 23:01, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > So, I want to install packages from an overlay, but only from a specific > > group. In this case, the dev-qt/ group. The overlay name is "qt". > > > > It doesn't work: > > > > package.mask: */*::qt > > package.unmask: dev-qt/*-5.6*::qt > > > > With this, 5.6 versions are still masked. > > > > How do I do this? > > Well, I brute-forced it. I've use this mask: > > */*::qt > > and this unmask: > > <dev-qt/designer-5.7 > <dev-qt/linguist-tools-5.7 > <dev-qt/qdbus-5.7 > <dev-qt/qtconcurrent-5.7 > <dev-qt/qtcore-5.7 > <dev-qt/qtdbus-5.7 > <dev-qt/qtdeclarative-5.7 > <dev-qt/qtgraphicaleffects-5.7 > <dev-qt/qtgui-5.7 > <dev-qt/qtimageformats-5.7 > <dev-qt/qtmultimedia-5.7 > <dev-qt/qtnetwork-5.7 > <dev-qt/qtopengl-5.7 > <dev-qt/qtpaths-5.7 > <dev-qt/qtprintsupport-5.7 > <dev-qt/qtquickcontrols-5.7 > <dev-qt/qtscript-5.7 > <dev-qt/qtsql-5.7 > <dev-qt/qtsvg-5.7 > <dev-qt/qttest-5.7 > <dev-qt/qtwidgets-5.7 > <dev-qt/qtx11extras-5.7 > <dev-qt/qtxml-5.7 > <dev-qt/qtxmlpatterns-5.7 > > It works, but I would have expected that computers are good with > wildcards :-/ The above should be equivalent to this: > > <dev-qt/*-5.7* > > but portage refuses to recognize it. > > Ah, well. > > >
