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From: MAL <mal@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: mozilla-1.0-r3
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 10:35:18
Message-Id: 3D2C545F.6000307@komcept.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: mozilla-1.0-r3 by Brandon Low
1 David Olsen wrote:
2 > Remove it from /var/cache/edb/world.
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4 Brandon Low wrote:
5 > Or you could remove mozilla-1.0-r3 from /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask
6 > which would tell portage that you want to keep using that version and not
7 > to change.
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9 Doesn't package.mask get replaced on each "emerge --clean rsync" ?
10 And wouldn't removing mozilla from /var/cache/edb/world mean that I won't get any /future/ updates, (ie. -r4)
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12 Please, tell me if i'm wrong.
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14 These seem to be get-arounds rather than designed solutions. Surely there's a way to flag that you don't want a particular update, recorded on your own pc, not in an every-changing portage tree. A local package mask file?
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16 Thanks for the info tho ppl,
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18 MAL

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: mozilla-1.0-r3 Hannes Mehnert <hannes@×××××××.org>