emerge /usr/portage/net-mail/ssmtp/ssmtp-2.60.3.ebuild is using /usr/portage/local/net-mail/ssmtp/ssmtp-2.60.3.ebuild. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. cp -r /usr/{,local}/portage/net-mail/ssmtp 2. edit the ebuild in /usr/local/portage 3. emerge /usr/portage/net-mail/ssmtp/ssmtp-2.60.3.ebuild Actual Results: the ebuild from /usr/local/portage/net-mail/ssmtp is used Expected Results: the given ebuild should be used Portage 2.0.49_pre19-r2 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.1, glibc-2.3.2-r2, 2.6.0-test3-mm1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.0-test3-mm1 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU 1133MHz ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -Os -pipe -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X1 1/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -Os -pipe -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache autoaddcvs sandbox buildpkg usersandbox userpriv fastsearch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.inode.at/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://ftp.snt.ut wente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages/andy" PKGUSE="( app-admin/abeni => -gtk2 )( net-nds/openldap => -berkdb )( x11-libs/wxGTK => -gtk2 )( dev-pytho n/wxPython => -gtk2 )" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 aalib aavm acl acpi acpi4linux alsa avi berkdb bonobo crypt cups curl dga directfb dnd dvd encod e esd ethereal faad fbcon fbdev gb gd gdbm ggi gif gnome gnomedb gtk gtk2 gtkhtml i8x0 imap imlib ipv6 ja va jpeg junit ldap libgda libwww mad maildir matroska mbox mcal memlimit mmx mng motif mozilla mozinterfa ceinfo moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozp3p mozsvg mozxmlterm mpeg music mysql ncurses nptl odbc offens ive oggvorbis openal opengl pam pdflib perl pic plotutils png python quicktime readline sdl slang slp spe ll sse ssl tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype type1 usagi usb wmf wxwindows X X509 Xaw3d xface xinerama xml x ml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
confirmed. Even if a full-qualified path to the ebuild is given the version (if it exists) from PORAGE_OVERLAY is used (PORTAGE_OVERLAY=/usr/portage.local).
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