From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LiHEA-0001bd-NQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:55:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 18D30E0152; Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:55:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.pinnacledataservices.com (mail.pinnacledataservices.com [72.51.37.205]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B02ADE0152 for ; Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:55:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 19350 invoked by uid 210); 13 Mar 2009 23:55:33 -0000 Received: from h148.166.90.75.dynamic.ip.windstream.net by serenity (envelope-from , uid 201) with qmail-scanner-2.05st (clamdscan: 0.94.2/9103. spamassassin: 3.2.1. perlscan: 2.05st. Clear:RC:1(75.90.166.148):. Processed in 0.023993 secs); 13 Mar 2009 23:55:33 -0000 Received: from h148.166.90.75.dynamic.ip.windstream.net (HELO nazgul.local) (75.90.166.148) by mail.pinnacledataservices.com with ESMTPS (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted); 13 Mar 2009 23:55:33 -0000 Received: from nazgul.local (nazgul [127.0.0.1]) by nazgul.local (8.14.3+Sun/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n2DNtXou005488 for ; Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:55:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from sean@localhost) by nazgul.local (8.14.3+Sun/8.14.3/Submit) id n2DNtXM7005487 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:55:33 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: nazgul.local: sean set sender to sean@ttys0.net using -f Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system From: Sean To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20090311134054.4a4de361@lappy.evolone.org> References: <20090311134054.4a4de361@lappy.evolone.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:55:32 -0400 Message-Id: <1236988532.13579.21.camel@nazgul> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.2 X-Archives-Salt: c980ca02-7327-4426-8446-48f0a989baa7 X-Archives-Hash: 2d34b82de878690455b619b104b7a21f 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