On Wednesday 08 December 2004 3:44 am, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
> Thus spake Adam Petaccia on Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 09:00:16PM CST
>
> > > This list also includes updates on a number of packages which are
> > > apparently slipping through the cracks when I do a daily 'emerge -u
> > > world'.  I've been noticing this for some time now.  Some packages
> > > apparently didn't get registered with 'world' when they're built, and I
> > > come on them from time to time by chance and notice the version
> > > differences between what's installed and what's available.
> >
> > add "-D" to your emerge list and it should catch most everything, except
> > maybe orphaned dependencies (which, admitantly, portage *does* have a
> > problem with these).
>
> Portage may not be smart enough to work around selective use of unstable
> packages.  e.g., I've had to use lm-sensors-2.8.8 (masked with ~x86) to get
> the package working, and have had to add a line to
> /etc/portage/package.mask to keep 'emerge -u world' from downgrading the
> package.  If I set
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" then portage wants to upgrade _everything_ to
> unstable.  Not good!  So with "<sys-apps/lm-sensors-2.8.8" in package.mask,

mkdir -p /etc/portage
echo 'sys-apps/lm-sensors ~x86' >>/etc/portage/package.keywords

Tada! Selective ~x86 keyword usage :)
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Luke-Jr
Developer, Utopios
http://utopios.org/

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