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From: "Arttu V." <arttuv69@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] skip some package in glsa-check
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:42:23
Message-Id: fecdbac60912170341v1b0bc1a1g26ad0edc6080c1bd@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] skip some package in glsa-check by "Crístian Viana"
1 On 12/17/09, Crístian Viana <cristiandeives@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > hi,
3 >
4 > I run "glsa-check -f affected" to update a Gentoo system, but there's one
5 > specific package I can't update, because it's a C library someone is using
6 > and the 'secure' version is causing segmentation fault on her program, so I
7 > added it to packages.mask. but as I run glsa-check in a cron job, if there's
8 > one package it can't emerge, it won't emerge the rest of them (if only I
9 > could add "--keep-going").
10 >
11 > does anyone have a solution to this? I want to keep running glsa-check to
12 > update my system, but I don't want to update one specific package.
13 >
14 > thanks!
15 >
16 > --
17 > Crístian Deives dos Santos Viana [aka CD1]
18 > Sent from Campinas, SP, Brazil
19
20 I don't know this for sure, but I wonder if putting the package in
21 package.provided would result in what you are looking for? So, unless
22 someone gets a better idea, I'd try to emerge the properly functioning
23 version of the package, and then mark it provided:
24
25 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=5#doc_chap3
26
27 --
28 Arttu V.

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