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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I don't want portage to update Libreoffice......
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 17:15:30
Message-Id: 20130810181523.5999b23c@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] I don't want portage to update Libreoffice...... by Andrew Lowe
1 On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 00:27:56 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote:
2
3 > In turn my /etc/portage/package.mask contains the line
4 >
5 > >app-office/libreoffice-4.1.0.1
6 >
7 > or
8 >
9 > >=app-office/libreoffice-4.1.0.1
10 >
11 > This results in portage wanting to downgrade libreoffice
12 >
13 > [ebuild UD ] app-office/libreoffice-4.0.4.2 [4.1.0.1]
14 >
15 > What do I have to fiddle so that portage won't want to upgrade
16 > libreoffice? This is stopping my "-NuD world" from completing so I need
17 > to suppress libreoffice for the time being and come back to it later.
18
19 4.1.0.1 is no longer in the portage tree, so 4.0.4.2 is the highest
20 version that fulfils your settings. The solution is to copy the ebuild
21 from /var/db/pkg into your local overlay (you will have to set one up if
22 not already done so) which will keep portage happy.
23
24
25 --
26 Neil Bothwick
27
28 "Daddy, what does formatting drive 'C' mean?

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