Re: [gentoo-user] net-misc/asterisk-1.8.28.2

[Floyd Anderson]

On Fri, 03 Feb 18:34:22 -0700
thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
>I have an old version of asterisk-1.8.28.2 (it is no longer in portage).
>I want to keep this version, temporarily (till I have a chance to test a
>new one 11.25.1-ver.

If you have the asterisk-ebuild (and all related files) still available, 
you could try to migrate it to a local overlay [1][2]. Otherwise, tell 
Portage you are handle this package yourself by adding it to:
    /etc/portage/profile/package.provided

This file can be used to hold a specific version — even the package is 
no longer in tree. But notice, this isn’t the whole truth as mentioned 
in [3]. Portage will not update listed packages unless another package 
requires a newer version of it.

Give it a try and invoke:
    emerge --pretend --verbose net-misc/asterisk
to ensure if it’ll work as expected.

References:
  [1] <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Portage/CustomTree#Defining_a_custom_repository>
  [2] <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Overlay/Local_overlay>
  [3] <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/profile/package.provided>

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Best regards,
Floyd Anderson