Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] freezing a package
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:18:53
Message-Id: 1261235910.11554.0.camel@centar
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] freezing a package by "Michael P. Soulier"
1 On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 10:12 -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
2 > If I want to freeze my nvidia-drivers because any upgrade will abandon my
3 > hardware, masking out newer versions doesn't seem to be enough as it will also
4 > offer to downgrade once that version is no longer in the portage tree.
5 >
6 > Is it simpler to just remove nvidia-drivers from the world file?
7
8 Create an local overlay. Put the ebuild in there.

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Re: [gentoo-user] freezing a package "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@×××××××××××××.ca>
Re: [gentoo-user] freezing a package Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>