Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

[Alan McKinnon]

On Friday 14 March 2008, Gustavo Campos wrote:
> That's the way I did it before, you know... but it really comes to be
> a pain in the ass when you want to test some new supercool releases
> with tons of dependencies, such as kde-4 and so on.

Tell me about it, been there done that, I feel your pain :-)

> However that's some neat tip, I haven't though on the possibility of
> leaving just package.keywords, I'm giving it a try just right now!
> Thanks a lot!

It was just an idea that came to me, completely untested. Let us know if 
it mostly works out.



>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Alan McKinnon
<alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
> > On Friday 14 March 2008, Gustavo Campos wrote:
> >  > Hi there.
> >  >
> >  > I have a "stable" system (I don't have ~x86 set), but I like to
> >  > have the latest versions of some specific software (kde, gnome,
> >  > amarok, alsa, pulseaudio, wine and so on). To achieve that, I've
> >  > been using autounmask with the parameter -n. When I have a
> >  > package I want to keep in the latest version, I just autounmask
> >  > -n package, so all the dependencies are unmasked and no version
> >  > number is appended.
> >  >
> >  > That works fine, but I like to have the latest released
> >  > versions, which means I usually want to get away from the *9999
> >  > ebuilds. The trouble is, when I use autounmask without version
> >  > numbers, those 9999 packages usually are choosen by portage, for
> >  > being the effective latest ones.
> >  >
> >  > I would like to know if there is a way for me to unmask
> >  > (automatically if possible) all versions BUT the 9999 ones, so I
> >  > have the latest releases but the less CVS/Beta packages as
> >  > possible.
> >
> >  I find autounmask does way too much for me, and does it blindly
> > just like a dumb computer should. so I do it manually. However, you
> > are using -n and at the same time trying to use it without -n...
> >
> >  Trying deleting the autounmask files in
> > /etc/portage/package.unmask/, that should go a long way to removing
> > the CVS stuff (which is usually hard masked) leaving just
> > package.keywords. You might have to manually resolve some conflicts
> > now and then though - small price
> >
> >
> >
> >  --
> >  Alan McKinnon
> >  alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
> >
> >  --
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>
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> Gustavo Campos
>
> Ciência da Computação / Computer Science - UFMG



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