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 1H57pl-0008HL-I7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:51:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0BLnsNq010329; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:49:54 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 l0BLi01S021860 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:44:01 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 l0BLhPvd015512 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:43:29 -0500 Received: (from covici@localhost) by ccs.covici.com (8.13.7/8.13.7/Submit) id l0BLhPpN015506; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:43:25 -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=iso-8859-1 Message-ID: <17830.44925.372093.997768@ccs.covici.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:43:25 -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: <200701112143.40855.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> References: <200701111828.56967.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> <20070111203256.203db747@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <200701112143.40855.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under Emacs 22.0.50.2 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id l0BLi01S021860 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l0BLnsO5010329 X-Archives-Salt: 721da89f-a816-437a-9299-886cdd343281 X-Archives-Hash: 4e1921d5a1b83b94d4aec8f0f866b27e Also, what did work was >dev-lang/php-5 I wish there was a way to see what it was ignoring, etc. on Thursday 01/11/2007 Bo =D8rsted Andresen(bo.andresen@zlin.dk) wrote > On Thursday 11 January 2007 21:32, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > > It would be better to use ">~pkg-category/package-0.0.1". this a= llows > > > > patch level updates, such as 0.0.1-r1 while not permitting an up= date > > > > to a higher upstream version. =A0 > > > > > > That isn't a valid atom and it plain doesn't work. Even if it did = it > > > wouldn't have the intended effect since it would mask -r*... > > > > I tested it before posting and it did work. It didn't mask -r*, allo= wing > > a upgrade. >=20 > It doesn't work at all. Nothing gets masked. It's simply ignored: >=20 > # cat /etc/portage/package.mask > >~dev-lang/php-4.4.4 > # emerge -p php > [SNIP] > [ebuild N ] dev-lang/php-5.1.6-r6 USE=3D"..." >=20 > # cat /etc/portage/package.mask > >dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r9999 > # emerge -p php > [SNIP] > [ebuild N ] dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r6 USE=3D"..." >=20 > That goes for both stable and ~arch portage. >=20 >=20 > --=20 > Bo Andresen --=20 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 --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list