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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Trying the masked version
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:39:15
Message-Id: yu9wtaa50zy.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Trying the masked version by Grant
1 At Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:00:48 -0700 Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > What do you guys do when you want to try the masked version of a
4 > package to fix a problem you're having with the stable version, but
5 > you don't want to follow the ~x86 version indefinitely? I've just
6 > been adding the package to package.keywords, but that obviously
7 > follows the masked version until you remember to remove the entry. Is
8 > there a better solution?
9
10 Let assume the package is gnumeric version 1.6.3
11 Then put the following line into /etc/portage/package.keywords
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13 ~app-office/gnumeric-1.6.3
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15 This way you will get -1.6.3 and, if there is a GENTOO version bump,
16 to ~app-office/gnumeric-1.6.3-r1, you will get that as well even if it
17 is keyword masked (i.e. is ~x86). But you will *not* get -1.6.4 if it
18 is ~x86 so you will in good time return to a stable version.
19
20 allan gottlieb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Trying the masked version Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>