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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:10:29
Message-Id: 20090128201006.40b039f3@krikkit
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)? by Joshua Murphy
1 On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:48:37 -0500, Joshua Murphy wrote:
2
3 > > =x11-wm/awesome-3.1-r1 ~amd64
4 > >
5 > > in /etc/portage/package.keywords
6 > >
7 > > but 'emerge -uD world' still tries to build x11-wm/awesome-3.1.1
8 > > which fails, so the whole process is stopped.
9 >
10 > echo \>x11-wm/awesome-3.1-r1 >> /etc/portage/package.mask
11 > # and to prevent downgrades
12
13 That blocks all future updates, not just the broken one.
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17 Neil Bothwick
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19 If there is light at the end of the tunnel...order more tunnel.

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