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On 22 August 2011 10:29, Florian Philipp <lists@×××××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Am 22.08.2011 18:58, schrieb Hilco Wijbenga: |
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>> Hi all, |
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>> I just noticed that Portage wants me to upgrade to FF 6. I know, |
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>> however, that (some of) my plugins don't run in FF6. Not a problem, |
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>> I'll just mask FF6 ... oops ... there's no more FF5? |
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>> Would it be possible to support FF5 a bit longer? The devs at FF may |
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>> have gone a bit bananas but surely we don't have to follow suit? :-) |
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>> Or is there a way to tell Portage to ignore upgrades but not downgrade FF? |
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>> Cheers, |
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>> Hilco |
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> Well, in any case, FF5 should at least be masked since it does not |
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> receive security fixes. |
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> The cleanest way to preserve FF5 for you is to create an overlay |
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> containing the latest version from Gentoo's CVS ([1 - 4]. |
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Yes, that's what I've done in the mean time. |
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> The easier way (as long as you don't have to re-emerge) is to add your |
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> *current* version of FF to /etc/portage/package.provided. As `man |
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> portage` states: |
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Ah, thank you, I did not know about package.provided. |
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> Portage will not attempt to update a package that is listed here |
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> unless another package explicitly requires a version that is newer than |
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> what has been listed. |
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> Or just mask FF completely and ignore all warnings of emerge about it. |
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> [1] http://anoncvs.gentoo.org/ |
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> [2] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cvs-tutorial.xml |
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> [3] |
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> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/retrieving-deleted-files-from-cvs-464839/ |
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> [4] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Overlay#Local_Overlays |
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> Hope this helps, |
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> Florian Philipp |
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