From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31560 invoked by uid 1002); 16 Jul 2003 12:38:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 4525 invoked from network); 16 Jul 2003 12:38:53 -0000 From: Chris Gianelloni To: Andrew Cowie Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1058357435.7364.6.camel@localhost> References: <20030713154724.3dca65b1.ian@ihtruelsen.dyndns.org> <1058232599.1936.19.camel@localhost> <3F13D843.50103@codewordt.co.uk> <1058357435.7364.6.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1058359077.12981.58.camel@vertigo> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.0 Date: 16 Jul 2003 08:37:59 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] **HEADS UP** Apache2 + MySQL4 moving to stable status X-Archives-Salt: 52e786ee-c619-4782-93c6-0580162cb4e5 X-Archives-Hash: 551fa9e5d6985a0e56d3da814678927d 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 > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list