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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H537Q-00076A-AY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:49:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0BGlLhc021916; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:47:21 GMT Received: from ccs.covici.com (ccs.covici.com [67.62.15.196]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0BGdJHt029239 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:39:19 GMT Received: from ccs.covici.com (IDENT:covici@ccs [127.0.0.1] (may be forged)) by ccs.covici.com (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id l0BGcgdU015965 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:38:46 -0500 Received: (from covici@localhost) by ccs.covici.com (8.13.7/8.13.7/Submit) id l0BGccUv015958; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:38:38 -0500 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 Message-ID: <17830.26638.385853.215203@ccs.covici.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:38:38 -0500 From: John covici To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated? In-Reply-To: <20070111161029.cd74f288.hilse@web.de> References: <20070111161029.cd74f288.hilse@web.de> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under Emacs 22.0.50.2 X-Archives-Salt: 38e8dc5d-903c-4075-88b0-0be4b29b9247 X-Archives-Hash: 2ed310de5f550d4f08ffd684233f127f OK, I did put my php version in the /etc/portage/package.mask, but it still wants to install a new major version -- curiously it says ebuild -ns rather than just -n or -u. I put the following line in there =dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r8 which is my current version of php and emerge said [ebuild NS ] dev-lang/php-5.1.6-r6 USE="berkdb cli crypt gdbm iconv ipv6 ldap ncurses nls pcre readline reflection session spell spl ssl truetype unicode xml zlib -adabas -apache -apache2 -bcmath -birdstep -bzip2 -calendar -cdb -cgi -cjk -concurrentmodphp -ctype -curl -curlwrappers -db2 -dbase -dbmaker -debug -discard-path -doc -empress -empress-bcs -esoob -exif -fastbuild -fdftk -filepro -firebird -flatfile -force-cgi-redirect -frontbase -ftp -gd -gd-external -gmp -hardenedphp -hash -hyperwave-api -imap -informix -inifile -interbase -iodbc -java-external -kerberos -libedit -mcve -memlimit -mhash -ming -msql -mssql -mysql -mysqli -oci8 -oci8-instant-client -odbc -pcntl -pdo -pdo-external -pic -posix -postgres -qdbm -recode -sapdb -sasl -sharedext -sharedmem -simplexml -snmp -soap -sockets -solid -sqlite -sybase -sybase-ct -sysvipc -threads -tidy -tokenizer -vm-goto -vm-switch -wddx -xmlreader -xmlrpc -xmlwriter -xpm -xsl -yaz -zip" on Thursday 01/11/2007 Hans-Werner Hilse(hilse@web.de) wrote > Hi, > > On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:50:31 -0500 John Covici > wrote: > > > Hi. I just did emerge --pretend --update --deep world, but there is a > > package which I don't want to have emerge update automatically -- how > > do I accomplish this? > > You can mask it in /etc/portage/package.mask, for the syntax have a > look at "man 5 portage". For your case, it's basically a line like > > >pkg-category/package-0.0.1 > > assuming you want to keep 0.0.1. > > > -hwh > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list