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From: Thanasis <thanasis@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge latest in a certain version series of a package
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 20:04:52
Message-Id: 52E80D5B.2060906@asyr.hopto.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge latest in a certain version series of a package by Andrew Tselischev
1 on 01/28/2014 09:36 PM Andrew Tselischev wrote the following:
2 > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 09:29:21PM +0200, Thanasis wrote:
3 >> Is there a way to specify that I want to install (emerge) the latest
4 >> 3.10.X series of sys-kernel/gentoo-sources as a slot, in parallel with
5 >> the latest gentoo-sources?
6 >>
7 >> Currently, that would be version 3.10.28.
8 >> I know I can specify it like so,
9 >> emerge =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.10.28
10 >>
11 >> but then it would not get "auto-updated" when a newer version of that
12 >> series (for example 3.10.29) becomes available in portage.
13 >>
14 >
15 > You could mask "newer" versions in package.mask like so:
16 >
17 >> =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.10.29*
18 >
19 >
20
21 Maybe I was not so clear, but my intent is *NOT* to mask any newer
22 versions, but have the sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.10.X get updated as a
23 slot, in parallel to latest sys-kernel/gentoo-sources, when I do a world
24 update like so:
25 emerge -DNu world

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge latest in a certain version series of a package Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge latest in a certain version series of a package Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge latest in a certain version series of a package Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>