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From: Miernik <public@××××××××××××××.name>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:09:16
Message-Id: 20090129091322.4D7B.2.NOFFLE@turbacz.local
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)? by Man Shankar
1 Man Shankar <man.ee.gen@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On 20:41 Wed 28 Jan , momesso.andrea@×××××.com wrote:
3 >>
4 >> I think that if emerge =x11-wm/awesome-3.1.1 fails, you should file a
5 >> bug before masking it.
6
7 Well, it could take days, weeks, or more before the bug report is taken
8 care of, and I don't want to wait with my upgrade of the rest of the
9 system.
10
11 > +1
12 >
13 > FWIW, have been using that version for about 10 days. Works great here.
14 > What is the error you get?
15
16 I did, read here:
17 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256641
18
19 Thanks for anwsers, masking worked.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)? "Sebastian Günther" <samson@××××××××××××××××.de>