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On Saturday 25 March 2006 12:16, Jorge Almeida wrote: |
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> On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Dave Jones wrote: |
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> > Jorge Almeida wrote on 03/25/06 10:00: |
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> >> $ cat /etc/portage/package.mask |
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> >> |
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> >> >media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7676 |
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> >> >media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.7676-r1 |
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> > |
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> > nvidia-kernel-1.0.8178-r3 is the current ~x86 version, and works fine |
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> > with gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r1. |
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> > |
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> > Try removing the specific version numbers from your package.mask to get |
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> > the latest version. |
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> |
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> I did what you say and it really wants to emerge the new versions (only |
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> did it with --pretend yet). But I still don't understand: what's the |
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> meaning of ">" in the beginning of each line in |
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> /etc/portage/package.mask? I thought it means that the version should be |
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> 1.0.7676 or _newer_? Am I wrong? |
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> |
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> Thanks, |
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> |
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> Jorge |
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Hi, |
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">media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7676" means that *any* version *greater* than |
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7676 is *masked* so i'll be unable to emerge any of them (incl. 8178 & newer) |
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HTH.Rumen |
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