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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:04:54
Message-Id: 4E1F7592.8070203@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics. by Alex Schuster
1 Alex Schuster wrote:
2 > Dale asks:
3 >
4 >
5 >> While I am at it, what is the syntax to mask a package higher than a
6 >> certain version in package.mask? I tired =>package.name.version and
7 >> tried>= package.name.version but the former doesn't work and seems to
8 >> ignore it and the later makes emerge print a boo boo message. On my old
9 >> rig, I want to mask anything above the 173 series. So far, I haven't
10 >> had the light bulb moment and never can remember how to do this.
11 >>
12 > This should do it:>=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-174
13 >
14 > Wonko
15 >
16 >
17 >
18
19 I don't boot that machine often so it took me a bit to get around to
20 testing it. This setting worked great. portage does what I want and we
21 are both happy.
22
23 Thanks much.
24
25 Dale
26
27 :-) :-)