Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o, Miernik <public@××××××××××××××.name>
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?
Date:	Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:08:17
Message-Id:	`D2188C79-63CE-432E-8E5F-E6FC45F5EC1B@stellar.eclipse.co.uk`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)? by Miernik

1	On 28 Jan 2009, at 15:33, Miernik wrote:
2
3	> I am doing a 'emerge -uD' but one of the packages the version
4	> currently
5	> in portage doesn't compile, so I want to keep my current version, and
6	> prevent emerge from trying to update it. How can I put a package on
7	> hold
8	> (like in Debian)?
9	>
10	> I tried inserting:
11	>
12	> =x11-wm/awesome-3.1-r1 ~amd64
13	>
14	> in /etc/portage/package.keywords
15	>
16	> but 'emerge -uD world' still tries to build x11-wm/awesome-3.1.1
17	> which fails, so the whole process is stopped.
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19	I think you need to use /etc/portage/package.mask instead.
20
21	Stroller.