From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31359 invoked by uid 1002); 7 Aug 2003 12:45:12 -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 32281 invoked from network); 7 Aug 2003 12:45:12 -0000 From: Chris Gianelloni To: Jani Monoses Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20030807093713.739abcc8.jani@iv.ro> References: <20030806190715.0c83656d.jani@iv.ro> <1060190681.19001.313.camel@vertigo> <20030807093713.739abcc8.jani@iv.ro> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-IiZ8DTW2YgCapVTkmKZt" Message-Id: <1060260652.18983.370.camel@vertigo> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 Date: 07 Aug 2003 08:50:53 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] package masking too conservative? X-Archives-Salt: 9969b151-6b94-4c67-be44-0e1a8c6ca08c X-Archives-Hash: 9b9d0cb8c9b955812bcaa3fe80a1dfcc --=-IiZ8DTW2YgCapVTkmKZt Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Developer, Gentoo Linux --=-IiZ8DTW2YgCapVTkmKZt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/MksskT4lNIS36YERAv9SAKC+p2QhkqKZNSc0+5W/azTToSZj7ACfVIAn Ri4Q7Ie0Fjv3k8ZJUABs/uA= =joRM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-IiZ8DTW2YgCapVTkmKZt--