Re: [gentoo-user] I don't want portage to update Libreoffice......

[Alan McKinnon]

On 12/08/2013 20:05, Paul Klos wrote:
> Op dinsdag 13 augustus 2013 01:54:00 schreef Andrew Lowe:
>> On 08/11/13 01:16, Daniel Frey wrote:
>>> On 08/10/2013 09:27 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>      As per usual an update of Libre Office is failing and causing all
>>>> sorts of build troubles. I have an install, the previous version,  of
>>>> Libre Office working so how do I stop portage from trying to update to
>>>> the latest.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [ebuild     UD ] app-office/libreoffice-4.0.4.2 [4.1.0.1]
>>>>
>>>> What do I have to fiddle so that portage won't want to upgrade
>>>> libreoffice? This is stopping my "-NuD world" from completing so I need
>>>> to suppress libreoffice for the time being and come back to it later.
>>>>
>>>>      Any thoughts, greatly appreciated,
>>>>
>>>>          Andrew
>>>>
>>>
>>> You can use the --exclude parameter (I think?) and it will ignore it for
>>> the one command, then after everything is updated you can solve it
>>> further. Try:
>>>
>>> emerge --exclude app-office/libreoffice -NuD world
>>>
>>> This is not a permanent change but it will allow you to complete your
>>> update, then you can set the masking afterwards.
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>>
>> It worked. Thanks. Now to get this all sorted out and Libre Office to
>> build at leisure.
>>
>> 	Andrew
>>
> FWIW, I had initially unmasked a bunch of stuff (suggested by portage) to get the first 4.x version of LO to compile. Upgrading to 4.0.4.2 only worked after I had upgraded boost and boost-build from 1.52 to 1.53. Portage had nothing to say about it, the build just failed with some weird boost errors.


You should log that as a bug, chances are good the devs are not aware of
it. They can't test every combination and so rely on us users to report
combinations shown to not work.


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