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From: Daniel Glaser <daniel.glaser@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging world selectively
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 17:48:55
Message-Id: 45293933.10001@chaintronics.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Emerging world selectively by Fredrik Tolf
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4 Hi Fredrik,
5 > Here's a portage question that I guess is quite elementary, but I
6 > haven't been able to find an answer to it on my own:
7 >
8 > If, when I emerge -Duva world, it calculates a package that I, for
9 > any reason, would like to delay/not emerge at all, how would I do
10 > to emerge all the packages except that one. This far, I've been
11 > running emerge -1va on all the others in the list (manually, that
12 > is), but I'm getting quite tired of that method, and I'm guessing
13 > that portage has some way of avoiding it.
14 try this one (example with gcc):
15 echo ">sys-devel/gcc-4.0.1-r1" >> /etc/portage/package.mask
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17 Where gcc-4.0.1-r1 is the version you want to be installed and never
18 updated.
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20 Is this what you want?
21
22 - -daniel
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