Re: [gentoo-dev] **HEADS UP** Apache2 + MySQL4 moving to stable status

[Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>]

How exactly are you adding the applications to
/etc/portage/profiles/package.mask?  I found that adding
>=net-www/apache-2.0.0 worked perfectly to keep apache at 1.x

Chris Gianelloni

On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 08:10, Andrew Cowie wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 20:32, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote:
> > Andrew Cowie wrote:
> > > I nosed around my system and discovered I don't have an /etc/portage. I
> > > do have a /usr/portage of course, with a profiles/packages.mask in it. 
> > 
> > You have to create it yourself if you feel the need for it.
> 
> Fair enough.
> 
> What is the expected behaviour of /etc/portage/profiles? Is the content
> of, say, /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask expected to be merged with
> /etc/portage/profiles/package.mask by emerge when calculating
> dependencies? 
> 
> [My experiments showed that this is not the behaviour that occurs - the
> one I created in /etc/portage/profiles was ignored]
> 
> I made the updates to package.mask in /usr/portage/profiles to "pin"
> (good word for it, even if it is Debian in origin) MySql at < 4 and
> Apache at < 2, but my concern is that the file in /usr/portage/profiles
> gets updated whenever an emerge rsync is done, and so my changes were,
> (as I expected) lost.
> 
> I feel like I'm missing something here.
> 
> AfC
> 


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