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Jorge Almeida wrote on 03/25/06 11:16: |
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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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>>> >media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7676 |
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>>> >media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.7676-r1 |
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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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>> Try removing the specific version numbers from your package.mask to get |
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>> the latest version. |
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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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With the > you're masking out *all* versions *higher* that 1.0.7676-r1, |
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which is probably not what you want. |
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If you want to mask out a specific version, do that with an = in front |
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of the version. |
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Dave |
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