The output of etcat -v <PN> always shows that each package is on the overlay directory. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.51_pre13 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0, 2.6.5 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.5 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.4.9 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/mnt/b2/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache cvs noauto sandbox userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bonobo crypt cups directfb encode foomaticdb gdbm ggi gif gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libgda libwww mad mikmod mmx mozilla mpeg mysql nas ncurses oggvorbis opengl oss pam perl png python qt quicktime readline ruby sdl slang spell sqlite ssl tcltk tcpd tiff truetype x86 xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Created attachment 35217 [details, diff] Patch to only show true OVERLAY versions This is a patch for gentoolkit.py and fixes the behaviour in etcat -v. I don't know what other packages use the function is_overlay() from gentoolkit.py though.
this tool is deprecated
*** Bug 64253 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
what is the replacement for 'etcat -v pkg'?
*** Bug 68545 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***