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That's the way I did it before, you know... but it really comes to be |
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a pain in the ass when you want to test some new supercool releases |
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with tons of dependencies, such as kde-4 and so on. |
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However that's some neat tip, I haven't though on the possibility of |
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leaving just package.keywords, I'm giving it a try just right now! |
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Thanks a lot! |
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On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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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> > |
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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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> -- |
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> Alan McKinnon |
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> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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> gentoo-user@l.g.o mailing list |
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Gustavo Campos |
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Ciência da Computação / Computer Science - UFMG |
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