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From: Andrew Tselischev <andrewts@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge latest in a certain version series of a package
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 19:36:20
Message-Id: 20140128193610.GB5608@thinkpad-gentoo-89r
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] emerge latest in a certain version series of a package by Thanasis
1 On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 09:29:21PM +0200, Thanasis wrote:
2 > Is there a way to specify that I want to install (emerge) the latest
3 > 3.10.X series of sys-kernel/gentoo-sources as a slot, in parallel with
4 > the latest gentoo-sources?
5 >
6 > Currently, that would be version 3.10.28.
7 > I know I can specify it like so,
8 > emerge =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.10.28
9 >
10 > but then it would not get "auto-updated" when a newer version of that
11 > series (for example 3.10.29) becomes available in portage.
12 >
13
14 You could mask "newer" versions in package.mask like so:
15
16 >=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.10.29*

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge latest in a certain version series of a package Thanasis <thanasis@××××××××××.org>