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From: John covici <covici@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:42:51
Message-Id: 17830.26277.821160.178511@ccs.covici.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated? by Hans-Werner Hilse
1 OK, thanks I will try that and see what it does.
2
3 on Thursday 01/11/2007 Hans-Werner Hilse(hilse@×××.de) wrote
4 > Hi,
5 >
6 > On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:50:31 -0500 John Covici <covici@××××××××××.com>
7 > wrote:
8 >
9 > > Hi. I just did emerge --pretend --update --deep world, but there is a
10 > > package which I don't want to have emerge update automatically -- how
11 > > do I accomplish this?
12 >
13 > You can mask it in /etc/portage/package.mask, for the syntax have a
14 > look at "man 5 portage". For your case, it's basically a line like
15 >
16 > >pkg-category/package-0.0.1
17 >
18 > assuming you want to keep 0.0.1.
19 >
20 >
21 > -hwh
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