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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Where to put prerelease vanilla kernels?
  @ 2003-07-24 13:49 99%     ` Thomas de Grenier de Latour
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From: Thomas de Grenier de Latour @ 2003-07-24 13:49 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 08:56:44 -0400
Matt Rickard <frogger@gentoo.org> wrote:

> package.mask is what I was really trying to avoid.  It's always a pain
> to have to unmask a package if you want to use it.

It's not anymore such a pain with custom package.(un)mask, this feature
just lacks documentation.

   I personnaly thinks using package.mask to mask prereleases of kernels
is the better solution. This way, a user has much more possibilities to
control which versions he wants to use:
 o Does he only want stable version? He has no changes to do.
 o Does he want to test everything? He can unmask
"sys-kernel/vanilla-sources"
 o Does he want to test _rc but not _pre, in 2.4.22 branch? He can
unmask ">=sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.4.22_rc1" and mask
">sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.4.22*"
 o etc.

There is no such to specify a custom policy with ~arch masking.

-- 
TGL.

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