Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] keeping an installed version
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:04:22
Message-Id: 20090319220412.165dec09@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] keeping an installed version by "Michael P. Soulier"
1 On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:48:41 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
2
3 > [ebuild UD] media-video/nvidia-settings-1.0.20070621 [169.07]
4 >
5 > I don't understand why it wants to downgrade the package from 169.07.
6 > I'm obviously missing something.
7
8 Because 169.07 is no longer in portage, you've masked out newer versions
9 so an older one is the only option.
10
11 If you want to lock a package to a specific version, you should copy the
12 ebuild to your overlay to stop this happening.
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16 Neil Bothwick
17
18 Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?

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