Re: [gentoo-server] protecting particular versions?

[Jacob Walcik]

that did it.

thanks again!


On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 15:45:46 +0100, Kerin Millar
<kerin@×××××××××××××××.net> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 15:34, Jacob Walcik wrote:
> > i've looked in the portage handbook, and i'm digging in the forums
> > now, but i can't seem to find a way to do this.
> >
> > i've got a production postgres database server running gentoo.  this
> > morning, when updating my desktop (also running gentoo) i noticed that
> > a new version of postgres is available.
> >
> > is there some way to tell the postgres server (and the machines that
> > use postgres client libraries to connect to it) to ignore that update?
> >  i seem to recall there being a mechanism through which you can
> > protect certain packages to prevent updates from being applied.
>
> > glsa-check looks interesting, but doesn't satisfy my requirement of
> > packages on production machines only being installed from tested
> > binaries built on a dev machine (unless i'm missing something).
>
> If I recall correctly, it is possible to "pin" a given version of a
> package in the world file. But the sensible (by which I mean "more
> complete") option is probably to use /etc/portage/package.mask. For
> instance:
>
> # [ ! -e /etc/portage ] && mkdir /etc/portage
> # echo ">dev-db/postgresql-7.4.3" >> /etc/portage/package.mask
>
> would effectively hard-mask any version of postgresql above 7.4.3 (thus,
> preventing it from being installed). Be warned though, without
> maintenance this strategy may cause errors in time. Consider the
> following two theoretical scenarios:
>
> 1) The 7.4.3 ebuild is eventually pulled from portage, meaning that any
> attempted update would fail due to its being masked.
>
> 2) Another ebuild has an explicit dependency on a newer version of
> postgresql. It will be blocked by the fact that the version it wants is
> masked.
>
> Here's an example of how to pin everything on the system:
>
> # qpkg -I -v -nc | sed -e "s/\(.*\)/>\1/" >> /etc/portage/package.mask
>
> You could then edit the list according to your tastes.
>
> Regards,
>
> --Kerin Francis Millar
>
>



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