Re: [gentoo-dev] Blocking a specific package version

[Lloyd D Budd]

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 12:57, Max Kalika wrote:
> Quoting Lloyd D Budd <lloyd@×××××××××××.com>:
>
> > On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 12:00, Patrick Kursawe wrote:
> >> what's the syntax for blocking a specific package version?
> >
> > I suggest taking the patches from
> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13616 ;-)
>
> Although I'm a firm advocate of those patches, partly due to the fact that
> I wrote them ;-), I don't think that they will work for this case because
> this issue doesn't deal with USE flags/keywords, but specific package
> version.  I'd say try to hunt around for a patch to Nvrec that will make it
> compatible with a new divx4linux, otherwise either nvrec or later versions
> divx4linux should be masked until a solution is found.

Oops... I got mixed up between the already integrated functionality of
/etc/portage/package.mask .

Cheers,
Lloyd


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