From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GKt1A-0004op-CX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 08:44:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k868h5VK020105; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 08:43:05 GMT Received: from outbound.mailhop.org (outbound.mailhop.org [63.208.196.171]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k868VdQC026782 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 08:31:40 GMT Received: from c-24-17-252-74.hsd1.mn.comcast.net ([24.17.252.74] helo=daevid.com) by outbound.mailhop.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.51) id 1GKsos-000M3O-Mp for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 04:31:38 -0400 Received: from locutus ([10.10.10.69]) by daevid.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.54) id 1GKsor-0002X8-FY for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 01:31:37 -0700 X-Mail-Handler: MailHop Outbound by DynDNS X-Originating-IP: 24.17.252.74 X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.mailhop.org/outbound/abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: DAE51D From: "Daevid Vincent" To: Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Exluding some apps from emerge --update world Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 01:31:06 -0700 Message-ID: <005e01c6d18e$de2de9f0$450a0a0a@locutus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <44CCDD27.9080106@electronsweatshop.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 Thread-Index: Acaz86Q1rNiACOlRSPizNTcWJ1M98gdmuB6w X-Archives-Salt: 01b55a8b-e622-4ca4-b47e-98dbc836932b X-Archives-Hash: 61702b63e86912cca08f59260ccee54c Related to this, is there a way to NOT get notified of all the minor increments? I'd rather just upgrade when a new "real" version is available instead of all these itty bitty incremental upgrades like "rc1" "rc2" etc. or 0.5.2-r1 and 0.5.2-r3 etc. But I would consider 0.5.3 and certainly want 0.6.x > -----Original Message----- > From: Randy Barlow [mailto:randy@electronsweatshop.com] > Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 9:24 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Exluding some apps from emerge > --update world > > Alex Fortwinder wrote: > > I's like to update my system, however, I'd like to keep > some of the packages as they are (X, firefox, kernel, etc) > > How do I go about it before i run emerge --update --deep > --newuse world? > > Add entries to /etc/portage/package.mask. Something like: > > >x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0-r1 > > would tell portage not to merge anything "greater than" X version > 7.0-r1. You could also just put 7.0 and it would at least get you the > bug fixes (r2, r3, etc. when they come along). Enjoy! > > R > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list