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From: Daevid Vincent <daevid@××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Exluding some apps from emerge --update world
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 08:44:20
Message-Id: 005e01c6d18e$de2de9f0$450a0a0a@locutus
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Exluding some apps from emerge --update world by Randy Barlow
1 Related to this, is there a way to NOT get notified of all the minor
2 increments?
3
4 I'd rather just upgrade when a new "real" version is available instead of
5 all these itty bitty incremental upgrades like "rc1" "rc2" etc. or 0.5.2-r1
6 and 0.5.2-r3 etc. But I would consider 0.5.3 and certainly want 0.6.x
7
8 > -----Original Message-----
9 > From: Randy Barlow [mailto:randy@×××××××××××××××××.com]
10 > Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 9:24 AM
11 > To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
12 > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Exluding some apps from emerge
13 > --update world
14 >
15 > Alex Fortwinder wrote:
16 > > I's like to update my system, however, I'd like to keep
17 > some of the packages as they are (X, firefox, kernel, etc)
18 > > How do I go about it before i run emerge --update --deep
19 > --newuse world?
20 >
21 > Add entries to /etc/portage/package.mask. Something like:
22 >
23 > >x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0-r1
24 >
25 > would tell portage not to merge anything "greater than" X version
26 > 7.0-r1. You could also just put 7.0 and it would at least get you the
27 > bug fixes (r2, r3, etc. when they come along). Enjoy!
28 >
29 > R
30 > --
31 > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
32 >
33 >
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Re: [gentoo-user] Exluding some apps from emerge --update world Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>