Bug 205562

Summary:	app-portage/g-cpan - use a specific overlay instead of the "first" one
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Arvind Jayaprakash <gentoo>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Perl team <perl>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	levertond, nicolas
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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

Steps to Reproduce:

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.