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Bug 205562 - app-portage/g-cpan - use a specific overlay instead of the "first" one
Summary: app-portage/g-cpan - use a specific overlay instead of the "first" one
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 176627
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Perl team
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Reported: 2008-01-13 07:28 UTC by Arvind Jayaprakash
Modified: 2008-02-28 10:47 UTC (History)
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Description Arvind Jayaprakash 2008-01-13 07:28:19 UTC 
g-cpan currently stores all its ebuilds in the first available overlay. As a user who is constantly adding and removing overlays, I need to pay attention to which is the "first" overlay else Imight accidentally end up wiping ebuilds pulled in by g-cpan. It would be nice if we can have a config file where users can optionally specify a specific overlay where these ebuilds have to go.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-01-13 08:53:34 UTC 
> g-cpan currently stores all its ebuilds in the first available overlay.

Well, not even that here... see Bug 176627
Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-02-27 19:52:52 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 176627 ***
Comment 3 Nicolas Litchinko 2008-02-28 10:47:23 UTC 
There is a way to mitigate this issue. You can add this at the very end of your /etc/make.conf:

PORTDIR_OVERLAY="
/usr/local/overlays/g-cpan
${PORTDIR_OVERLAY}
"

This will ensure the g-cpan overlay is always first in line. It doesn't fix bug 176627 but patches are available there.