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On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 18:30:33 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: |
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> I do so already, and in fact my initial workaround was to fork the |
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> ebuild in my repo, pretty much like you recommend. |
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> But I didn't know that this was the official way of stopping upgrades. |
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> I thought package.mask was that, and I think that's what the Handbook |
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> (or maybe some other part of the wiki) recommends. |
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This is Gentoo, "official" is a moving target. package.mask is good for |
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preventing upgrade to a specific version, but it can't be used to block |
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all updates on its own because eventually the older versions will be |
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treecleaned. That's why you need to keep them n a local overlay, and be |
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prepared to deal with any breakage they may introduce. |
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