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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Masking udev to postpone the update
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:02:44
Message-Id: yu9sjh5793d.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Masking udev to postpone the update by Alan McKinnon
1 On Sun, Mar 18 2012, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2
3 > On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:14:48 -0700
4 > Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote:
5 >
6 >> I will update to the new world order, but would very much prefer to
7 >> postpone that for a few weeks. Is it enough to put
8 >>
9 >> >sys-fs/udev-171-r5
10 >>
11 >> in /etc/portage/package.mask ?
12 >
13 >>=sys-fs/udev-181
14 >
15 > would be better. Rather mask the first version that causes issues and
16 > all subsequent versions. With your suggestions, there may be
17 > future updates between 171 and 181 (without initrd issues) that you
18 > want, but you can't use them as you masked them.
19
20 Done, thanks. Thank you volker as well.
21
22 allan

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Re: [gentoo-user] Masking udev to postpone the update Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>