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From: Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:20:13
Message-Id: 20070111161029.cd74f288.hilse@web.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated? by John Covici
1 Hi,
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3 On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:50:31 -0500 John Covici <covici@××××××××××.com>
4 wrote:
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6 > Hi. I just did emerge --pretend --update --deep world, but there is a
7 > package which I don't want to have emerge update automatically -- how
8 > do I accomplish this?
9
10 You can mask it in /etc/portage/package.mask, for the syntax have a
11 look at "man 5 portage". For your case, it's basically a line like
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13 >pkg-category/package-0.0.1
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15 assuming you want to keep 0.0.1.
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17
18 -hwh
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Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated? John covici <covici@××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated? John covici <covici@××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated? Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>