Re: [gentoo-user] skip some package in glsa-check

[Crístian Viana]

it didn't work :( although I didn't know about the existence of that file!
:)

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Arttu V. <arttuv69@×××××.com> wrote:

> On 12/17/09, Crístian Viana <cristiandeives@×××××.com> wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > I run "glsa-check -f affected" to update a Gentoo system, but there's one
> > specific package I can't update, because it's a C library someone is
> using
> > and the 'secure' version is causing segmentation fault on her program, so
> I
> > added it to packages.mask. but as I run glsa-check in a cron job, if
> there's
> > one package it can't emerge, it won't emerge the rest of them (if only I
> > could add "--keep-going").
> >
> > does anyone have a solution to this? I want to keep running glsa-check to
> > update my system, but I don't want to update one specific package.
> >
> > thanks!
> >
> > --
> > Crístian Deives dos Santos Viana [aka CD1]
> > Sent from Campinas, SP, Brazil
>
> I don't know this for sure, but I wonder if putting the package in
> package.provided would result in what you are looking for? So, unless
> someone gets a better idea, I'd try to emerge the properly functioning
> version of the package, and then mark it provided:
>
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=5#doc_chap3
>
> --
> Arttu V.
>
>


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Crístian Deives dos Santos Viana [aka CD1]