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From: Justin <justin@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Howto mask release candidates?
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 08:42:32
Message-Id: 482D48F4.5040505@j-schmitz.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Howto mask release candidates? by Justin
1 Justin schrieb:
2 > Marko Kocić schrieb:
3 >>>> Is it possible in packages.mask to mask only release
4 >>>> candidates/alpha/beta versions, while leaving final releases unmasked?
5 >>>>
6 >>> what is the aim of this? To have a stable system? In that case you
7 >>> should make sure ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in make.conf does NOT have a ~
8 >>>
9 >>> Then you may get release candidates and betas but only when they're
10 >>> proven to work, or work better.
11 >>>
12 >>
13 >> I don't wand to mask all rc/alphas/betas for all packages, but only
14 >> for some.
15 >>
16 >> The aim is to be able to use eg vanilla-sources versioned with 2.25,
17 >> 2.25.1,
18 >> 2.25.2, 2.25.3, 2.26. 2.26.1 while skipping 2.26_rcZ, 2.25.rcx,
19 >> 2.27_rcX.
20 >>
21 >> Thanks,
22 >> Marko
23 >>
24 > In my portage there are only rc for 26. So just add
25 > <=sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.26 to your packages.keywords.
26 >
27 I ment <sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.26!!

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Re: [gentoo-user] Howto mask release candidates? "Marko Kocić" <marko.kocic@×××××.com>