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Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> writes: |
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> On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 04:32:52 -0400, reader@×××××××.com wrote: |
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>> The few times I've tried backing down from current installed to older |
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>> versions of something... I've had a problem getting the syntax right. |
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>> According to man emerge and man portage this syntax should work: |
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>> Either: emerge -vp ">="mail-mta/sendmail-8.13.7 |
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>> or |
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>> emerge -vp ">=mail-mta/sendmail-8.13.7" |
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> This upgrades >= means greater than or equal to, so it will install the |
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> latest available version. You want one of |
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> emerge -av =mail-mta/sendmail-8.13.7 |
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> to emerge a specific version, or |
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> emerge -av "<mail-mta/sendmail-8.14.0" |
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> to get the latest available 8.13 version. |
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Gack, thanks... I had just carelessly used the examples in man pages. |
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> You can also make this change permanent by adding |
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> >=mail-mta/sendmail-8.14.0 |
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> to /etc/portage.package.mask |
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Neil was the above a typo? Or is it correct that using greater than |
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or equal to 8.14.0 in /etc/portage.package.mask will cause a version |
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of 8.13.X to be kept? |
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