Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Masking udev to postpone the update
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:24:47
Message-Id: 20120318222224.4bc799c4@khamul.example.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Masking udev to postpone the update by Allan Gottlieb
1 On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:14:48 -0700
2 Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote:
3
4 > I will update to the new world order, but would very much prefer to
5 > postpone that for a few weeks. Is it enough to put
6 >
7 > >sys-fs/udev-171-r5
8 >
9 > in /etc/portage/package.mask ?
10
11 >=sys-fs/udev-181
12
13 would be better. Rather mask the first version that causes issues and
14 all subsequent versions. With your suggestions, there may be
15 future updates between 171 and 181 (without initrd issues) that you
16 want, but you can't use them as you masked them.
17
18
19
20 --
21 Alan McKinnnon
22 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Masking udev to postpone the update Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>