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From: William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade only to bigger Version
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 22:36:19
Message-Id: 51F2F9D3.7080102@iinet.net.au
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade only to bigger Version by Silvio Siefke
1 On 27/07/13 06:19, Silvio Siefke wrote:
2 > Hey Armin,
3 >
4 > On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 23:01:04 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann
5 > <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote:
6 >
7 >> ok, first make an overlay and copy the ebuild of the version you want
8 >> to pin there.
9 >>
10 >> Than mask everything else.
11 >>
12 >> You can find the ebuild in /var/db if it was removed from the tree
13 >> already.
14 >>
15 >> And yes, this ebuild removing sucks - because nobody needs every
16 >> single LO update...
17 >
18 > Äh sorry what? I not understand so really what you mean? I should delete
19 > the ebuild? But with next sync is back. Can you explain for totally
20 > stupid men :( :)
21 >
22 >
23 >
24 > Thank you for help and nice weekend.
25 > Silvio
26 >
27
28 ummm, the ebuild no longer exists after the last update ... you need to
29 restore it from the attic.
30
31 olympus ~ # ls -al /usr/portage/app-office/libreoffice
32 total 216
33 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 25 23:01 .
34 drwxr-xr-x 67 root root 4096 Jul 27 05:31 ..
35 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 89685 Jul 25 23:01 ChangeLog
36 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9966 Jul 25 23:01 Manifest
37 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 14 20:01 files
38 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17522 Jul 1 05:31 libreoffice-4.0.4.2.ebuild
39 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17535 Jul 10 16:01 libreoffice-4.0.9999.ebuild
40 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17281 Jul 25 22:50 libreoffice-4.1.0.4.ebuild
41 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17282 Jul 10 16:01 libreoffice-4.1.9999.ebuild
42 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17325 Jul 17 01:01 libreoffice-9999-r2.ebuild
43 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 981 Jul 16 10:31 metadata.xml
44 olympus ~