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From: Justin <justin@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Howto mask release candidates?
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 08:34:29
Message-Id: 482D470F.8040307@j-schmitz.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Howto mask release candidates? by "Marko Kocić"
1 Marko Kocić schrieb:
2 >>> Is it possible in packages.mask to mask only release
3 >>> candidates/alpha/beta versions, while leaving final releases unmasked?
4 >>>
5 >> what is the aim of this? To have a stable system? In that case you
6 >> should make sure ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in make.conf does NOT have a ~
7 >>
8 >> Then you may get release candidates and betas but only when they're
9 >> proven to work, or work better.
10 >>
11 >
12 > I don't wand to mask all rc/alphas/betas for all packages, but only for some.
13 >
14 > The aim is to be able to use eg vanilla-sources versioned with 2.25, 2.25.1,
15 > 2.25.2, 2.25.3, 2.26. 2.26.1 while skipping 2.26_rcZ, 2.25.rcx, 2.27_rcX.
16 >
17 > Thanks,
18 > Marko
19 >
20 In my portage there are only rc for 26. So just add
21 <=sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.26 to your packages.keywords.

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