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On Thursday 19 March 2009 23:48:41 Michael P. Soulier wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I'm trying to understand package masking. If I want to keep a version of a |
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> package, if I mask-out anything higher than the current version then I |
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> figured that would accomplish the task. |
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> Currently I have media-video/nvidia-settings-169.07 |
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> If I want to keep this, I thought I could add this to |
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> /etc/portage/package.mask |
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> >media-video/nvidia-settings-169.07 |
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> but if I run |
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> emerge --update --pretend --deep world |
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> I get |
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> [ebuild UD] media-video/nvidia-settings-1.0.20070621 [169.07] |
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> I don't understand why it wants to downgrade the package from 169.07. I'm |
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> obviously missing something. |
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You asked for an update so portage will examine the tree and update everything |
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that can be updated. |
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nvidia-settings-169.07 is NOT in the tree so portage wants to update it, and |
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the only version that satisfies is 1.0.20070621. It is also the only possible |
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version left for you to use after that mask. |
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I recommend you find the ebuild for your current version in /var somewhere and |
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mvoe it to a local overlay where it can be safe |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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