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From: Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Pin a package to a binary (quickpkg'd) version?
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 12:43:21
Message-Id: 53F88C30.1020501@libertytrek.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Pin a package to a binary (quickpkg'd) version? by Alan McKinnon
1 On 8/23/2014 8:16 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On 23/08/2014 12:34, Tanstaafl wrote:
3 >> Is it possible to do this?
4
5 > Not directly. I'm assuming you mean packages you built yourself and
6 > quick-pkg'ed them, not something available as a -bin
7
8 Correct... I have buildpkg feature enabled in make.conf, so everything
9 gets quickpkg'd...
10
11 > You can use emerge -K, so emerge will fail if there's no binpkg
12 > available. This will do what you want as long as you
13 >
14 > a) always use the -K option
15 > b) don't try emerge something else as well
16 >
17 > Portage is designed to build your packages from source; binpkgs are very
18 > much a third class citizen with only very primitive levels of support.
19
20 Bummer...
21
22 What I want is to be able to pin a specific package to the quickpkg'd
23 version, so it doesn't get updated during an emerge world...

Replies

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[gentoo-user] Re: Pin a package to a binary (quickpkg'd) version? Jouni Kosonen <jouni.kosonen@××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Pin a package to a binary (quickpkg'd) version? Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>