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From: "Marko Kocić" <marko.kocic@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Howto mask release candidates?
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 08:29:45
Message-Id: 9238e8de0805160129vb43e7bnc506256700ef1082@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Howto mask release candidates? by Iain Buchanan
1 >> Is it possible in packages.mask to mask only release
2 >> candidates/alpha/beta versions, while leaving final releases unmasked?
3 >
4 > what is the aim of this? To have a stable system? In that case you
5 > should make sure ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in make.conf does NOT have a ~
6 >
7 > Then you may get release candidates and betas but only when they're
8 > proven to work, or work better.
9
10 I don't wand to mask all rc/alphas/betas for all packages, but only for some.
11
12 The aim is to be able to use eg vanilla-sources versioned with 2.25, 2.25.1,
13 2.25.2, 2.25.3, 2.26. 2.26.1 while skipping 2.26_rcZ, 2.25.rcx, 2.27_rcX.
14
15 Thanks,
16 Marko
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