From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
To: Jani Monoses <jani@iv.ro>
Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] package masking too conservative?
Date: 07 Aug 2003 08:50:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1060260652.18983.370.camel@vertigo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030807093713.739abcc8.jani@iv.ro>
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On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 02:37, Jani Monoses wrote:
> I'd like to test/use latest versions of most packages but not the latest
> glibc for instance or something which might destabilize the whole
> system. They are both under the same hat with the current ~arch setup.
Use /etc/portage/package.mask to pin your version of glibc/gcc/whatever
to the version you want until you feel comfortable with a higher
version.
> Also if only packages with no bugs in them should be stable then
> probably only /bin/yes, /bin/false, /bin/true and TeX would make it :)
Packages that have no apparent bugs that have shown up during the
"testing" phase. No software is perfect.
--
Chris Gianelloni
Developer, Gentoo Linux
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-06 16:07 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] package masking too conservative? Jani Monoses
2003-08-06 17:24 ` Chris Gianelloni
2003-08-07 6:37 ` Jani Monoses
2003-08-07 12:50 ` Chris Gianelloni [this message]
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