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On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: |
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> The solution for your stated preference is to unmask the packages' |
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> keyword in /etc/portage/package.keywords, and mask all versions of the |
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> package above the one you have now, so that they do not appear if an |
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> update occurs and you do not want to update to a further unstable version: |
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> #echo 'media-video/nvidia-kernel ~x86' >>/etc/portage/package.keywords |
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> #echo 'media-video/nvidia-glx ~x86' >>/etc/portage/package.keywords |
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> #echo '>media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7676' >>/etc/portage/package.mask |
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> #echo '>media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.7676-r1' >>/etc/portage/package.mask |
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> You would of course have to keep an eye on the Portage tree so you would |
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> know when to remove the masks and unmask entries, but you could get |
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> through your daily life without having to re-emerge everything all the time. |
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OK, will do that. I don't do much emerge world, I usually just "-p"-it |
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and then emerge each package, that's why I didn't think of that. |
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Thank you (and to Christoph too). |
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Jorge |
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