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From:	Joshua Murphy <poisonbl@×××××.com>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?
Date:	Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:48:39
Message-Id:	`c30988c30901280848ka33d638ycfd11742c9dc6b7e@mail.gmail.com`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)? by Miernik

1	On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Miernik <public@××××××××××××××.name> wrote:
2	> I am doing a 'emerge -uD' but one of the packages the version currently
3	> in portage doesn't compile, so I want to keep my current version, and
4	> prevent emerge from trying to update it. How can I put a package on hold
5	> (like in Debian)?
6	>
7	> I tried inserting:
8	>
9	> =x11-wm/awesome-3.1-r1 ~amd64
10	>
11	> in /etc/portage/package.keywords
12	>
13	> but 'emerge -uD world' still tries to build x11-wm/awesome-3.1.1
14	> which fails, so the whole process is stopped.
15
16	echo \>x11-wm/awesome-3.1-r1 >> /etc/portage/package.mask
17	# and to prevent downgrades
18	echo \<x11-wm/awesome-3.1-r1 >> /etc/portage/package.mask
19
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21	--
22	Poison [BLX]
23	Joshua M. Murphy

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Re: [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?	Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>