Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system

[Dale]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 March 2009 22:40:54 Michael Higgins wrote:
>
>> Don't know the proper term, but I want to stop version updates for a while,
>> yet allow package-rN updates...
>>
>
> This doesn't seem to be a built-in feature of portage after a quick scan of
> the man pages. But I can think of a method to do it the long way round:
>
> The atom syntax you want is <package>~ which means any -rN version (including
> -r0) of the base version.
>
> You could grab a complete list of your system and world (emerge -et), mangle
> it into shape with grep, sed and awk and redirect the whole lot to a
> package.mask file in a format something like this:
>
>
>> app-1.1.0~
>>
>
>
>
>> I spent most of the last couple of days killing two bugs that were a
>> serious drag on my laptop, involving kacpid hogging the CPU on a resume, or
>> bay swap, and gnome panel freezing on > 7 open windows (a real deal
>> killer). I'd like to spend a few months just using it now that it all
>> works...
>>
>> So with the latest kernel in the tree unmasked (kacpid bug fix) and a
>> couple of patches and ebuilds in my overlay for a pair of unmasked x11 and
>> gnome packages, what is the method to keep this 'world' in a 'set' and
>> 'forgotten' state? '-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>
>


Could he just not sync and call it a day?  I suspect this is going to
bite him one day tho.  We know Gentoo likes to be updated fairly
regular.  I been around Gentoo for years and I don't think I would want
to do this.  I'm not sure how much experience the OP has tho.

I do understand that getting something stable and working then wanting
to keep it that way.  I'm just wondering what his mileage may be in the
long run.

Dale

:-)  :-)