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 4.43) id 1E9oPP-0000RY-9Y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:31:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7TIRF2v026606; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:27:15 GMT Received: from pythagoras.zen.co.uk (pythagoras.zen.co.uk [212.23.3.140]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7TIKPQY029220 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:20:26 GMT Received: from [82.69.83.178] (helo=desiato.digimed.co.uk) by pythagoras.zen.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1E9oH1-0005tz-TY for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:22:23 +0000 Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.2]) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FD871422034 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:22:18 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:22:18 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to instruct emerge to leave certain stuff alone Message-ID: <20050829192218.465807ca@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <87mzn113r3.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87r7cdtric.fsf@newsguy.com> <200508291206.25209.alex.tsr@gmail.com> <87mzn113r3.fsf@newsguy.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.14-rc1 (GTK+ 2.6.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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: multipart/signed; boundary="Signature_Mon__29_Aug_2005_19_22_18_+0100_iQl=H4j=FNQej2SB"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Originating-Pythagoras-IP: [82.69.83.178] X-Archives-Salt: 81d96bb4-c85f-4b15-89df-90f9b1828be6 X-Archives-Hash: 97319a91383ee2c58ab5876703e37409 --Signature_Mon__29_Aug_2005_19_22_18_+0100_iQl=H4j=FNQej2SB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 04:39:12 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > > According to the portage man-page you must include the version of > > the package >=20 > Yes I saw that too, But that wasn't necessary before. So maybe new? > But it also raises another question. The emacs I wanted to keep is an > older version than the newest in portage. So do I enter that version? Put the version you have installed in package.provided and ">category/package-version" in /etc/portage/package.mask. This will tell portage that you have the version you have installed, but not to try to update to a newer version. If you ever try to install a package that requires a later version of emacs than you have, you'll get an error and can deal with it manually, whereas putting later versions in package.provided means you'll see no error until the dependent package breaks. --=20 Neil Bothwick I do not like this dumb machine I really ought to sell it. It never does just what I want But only what I tell it. --Signature_Mon__29_Aug_2005_19_22_18_+0100_iQl=H4j=FNQej2SB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDE1Jaum4al0N1GQMRAkWwAKClmxUpPBmCUnxxuW3/HliITrwduwCfd4NR ut0pcjP6GethYq7WSYBYObA= =B5gp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Mon__29_Aug_2005_19_22_18_+0100_iQl=H4j=FNQej2SB-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list