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On Wednesday 13 December 2006 22:59, Travis Osterman wrote: |
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> I needed to unmask ivtv by placing it in my |
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> /etc/portage/package.keywords as "media-tv/ivtv". Now I'd like to |
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> have my system not ask me to ever upgrade it again until the newer |
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> version is required as a dependency of some other program. |
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Why? |
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> I thought that putting "=media-tv/ivtv-0.9.0" (where 0.9.0 is my |
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> current version) in /etc/portage/package.mask would be the solution, |
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> but when I "emerge ivtv -pv" it wants to upgrade to "0.9.1". |
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You should package.mask the versions you don't want. Not the version you do |
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want. So ">=media-tv/ivtv-0.9.1" seems to be what you're looking for. |
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Or ">media-tv/ivtv-0.9.0"... |
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> I commented out the line in package.keywords thinking maybe if it was |
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> already installed and masked that portage would ignore it. The result |
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> of this was portage wanted to downgrade to the more 'stable' 0.8.x - |
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> which is also not the desired result. |
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Of course you can also just put "=media-tv/ivtv-0.9.0" in package.keywords. |
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That will work until the 0.9 branch gets stabilised. Of course |
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"~media-tv/ivtv-0.9.0" may be preferred since you may want bugfixes like |
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media-tv/ivtv-0.9.0-r1, media-tv/ivtv-0.9.0-r2 etc. if such ever gets |
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realeased in the tree... |
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> Is there a way to not upgrade to 0.9.1 without emerge'ing ivtv with |
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> the '-1' option or using package.provided (as it seems to circumvent |
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> portage's dependency checking)? Thanks. |
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Using package.provided is a *really* bad idea! It will bite you eventually... |
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This is all documented in `man portage` and the handbook... |
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Bo Andresen |
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