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On Friday 14 March 2008, Gustavo Campos wrote: |
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> Hi there. |
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> I have a "stable" system (I don't have ~x86 set), but I like to have |
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> the latest versions of some specific software (kde, gnome, amarok, |
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> alsa, pulseaudio, wine and so on). To achieve that, I've been using |
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> autounmask with the parameter -n. When I have a package I want to |
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> keep in the latest version, I just autounmask -n package, so all the |
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> dependencies are unmasked and no version number is appended. |
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> That works fine, but I like to have the latest released versions, |
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> which means I usually want to get away from the *9999 ebuilds. The |
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> trouble is, when I use autounmask without version numbers, those 9999 |
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> packages usually are choosen by portage, for being the effective |
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> latest ones. |
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> I would like to know if there is a way for me to unmask |
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> (automatically if possible) all versions BUT the 9999 ones, so I have |
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> the latest releases but the less CVS/Beta packages as possible. |
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I find autounmask does way too much for me, and does it blindly just |
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like a dumb computer should. so I do it manually. However, you are |
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using -n and at the same time trying to use it without -n... |
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Trying deleting the autounmask files in /etc/portage/package.unmask/, |
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that should go a long way to removing the CVS stuff (which is usually |
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hard masked) leaving just package.keywords. You might have to manually |
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resolve some conflicts now and then though - small price |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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