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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO stick a package
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:07:52
Message-Id: 200907112307.45695.wonko@wonkology.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO stick a package by Keith Dart
1 Keith Dart writes:
2
3 > === On Sat, 07/11, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: ===
4 >
5 > > How to say portage to "keep this as is"?
6
7 > I always just use /etc/portage/package.mask
8 >
9 > e.g.:
10 > >media-libs/mesa-7.3-r1
11 >
12 > masks anything greater than that version.
13
14 That's what Andrew already did. But now the specific version he needs is no
15 longer in portage, so portage wants to downgrade. Maybe masking lower
16 versions also would do the trick?
17 But putting the ebuild into the overlay is the cleanest solution.
18
19 Wonko

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Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO stick a package Keith Dart <keith@×××××××××.biz>