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From: Sean <sean@ttys0.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:55:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1236988532.13579.21.camel@nazgul> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090311134054.4a4de361@lappy.evolone.org>


On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 13:40 -0700, Michael Higgins wrote:
> Don't know the proper term, but I want to stop version updates for a while, yet allow package-rN updates...

I don't think there's a real good way to accomplish this, but the
approach I would take is to setup a local portage tree that the system
syncs from. You could then cherry pick the ebuild updates that go into
that local, and now customized, portage tree. 

-Sean



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-13 23:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-11 20:40 [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system Michael Higgins
2009-03-12  7:56 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-03-12  8:07   ` Dale
2009-03-12  8:13     ` Alan McKinnon
2009-03-12  8:26       ` Dale
2009-03-12  9:51       ` Neil Bothwick
2009-03-13 17:24         ` Michael Higgins
2009-03-13 19:43           ` Dale
2009-04-03  2:45       ` Mark David Dumlao
2009-04-03 23:56         ` Michael Higgins
2009-04-04  3:24           ` [gentoo-user] " ABCD
2009-03-12  9:48   ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2009-03-12 10:52     ` Alan McKinnon
2009-03-12 19:43       ` Neil Bothwick
2009-03-12 20:21         ` Alan McKinnon
2009-03-17  7:46     ` Sebastian Günther
2009-03-17  8:41       ` Neil Bothwick
2009-04-02 18:19   ` Michael Higgins
2009-03-13 23:55 ` Sean [this message]
2009-03-14  4:11   ` Beau Henderson
2009-03-14  9:38   ` Neil Bothwick
2009-03-18  9:57 ` Momesso Andrea

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