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From: Jouni Kosonen <jouni.kosonen@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Pin a package to a binary (quickpkg'd) version?
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 16:46:23
Message-Id: ltagfr$pm3$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Pin a package to a binary (quickpkg'd) version? by Tanstaafl
1 Tanstaafl wrote:
2
3 >
4 > Bummer...
5 >
6 > What I want is to be able to pin a specific package to the
7 quickpkg'd
8 > version, so it doesn't get updated during an emerge world...
9
10 Wouldn't it mostly work if you
11 a] Copied the package ebuild directory to a local overlay to ensure
12 the version keeps being available to portage even if it vanishes from
13 the official tree and
14 b] masked any later version in, say, /etc/portage/package.mask/pinned
15
16 ( and c] mentally prepared to repeat the procedure when the tree no
17 longer provides compatible dependencies )
18
19 ?

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[gentoo-user] Re: Pin a package to a binary (quickpkg'd) version? James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>