From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: world favorites: pros and cons
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:10:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060728191017.GB20348@nibiru.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44CA5E2A.6090409@mid.email-server.info>
* Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name> wrote:
<snip>
> >Sure, mask anything higher than the version you want in
> >your /etc/portage/package.mask file:
> >
> > >dev-db/mysql-4.1.20
>
> And then put the ebuild you're using into a local overlay. Reason:
> Sooner or later, the package might/will be dropped (as it's too
> old) but you'll still need the ebuild.
Yeah, but this would also prevent fixes in this ebuild.
(ie. if there's a typo or broken dependency)
cu
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Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-05 9:48 [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons Daniel
2006-07-05 10:10 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-07-05 10:21 ` Alexander Skwar
2006-07-05 10:18 ` Alexander Skwar
2006-07-05 10:55 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-07-05 11:11 ` Daniel
2006-07-05 11:33 ` Rumen Yotov
2006-07-05 11:54 ` Daniel Iliev
2006-07-05 12:14 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-07-05 12:43 ` Daniel Iliev
2006-07-05 13:16 ` Alexander Skwar
2006-07-05 14:47 ` Alan McKinnon
2006-07-05 13:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-07-05 14:29 ` Daniel Iliev
2006-07-05 15:08 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-07-05 16:53 ` Daniel Iliev
2006-07-05 20:15 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-07-05 16:38 ` Richard Fish
2006-07-05 17:10 ` Daniel Iliev
2006-07-05 18:15 ` Richard Fish
2006-07-05 18:59 ` Daniel Iliev
2006-07-05 19:47 ` Richard Fish
2006-07-05 16:54 ` Daniel da Veiga
2006-07-05 18:30 ` Daniel Iliev
2006-07-05 19:17 ` Daniel da Veiga
2006-07-05 20:01 ` Daniel Iliev
2006-07-28 18:30 ` Enrico Weigelt
2006-07-28 18:46 ` [gentoo-user] " Jim Ramsay
2006-07-28 18:57 ` Alexander Skwar
2006-07-28 19:10 ` Enrico Weigelt [this message]
2006-07-28 19:30 ` Jim Ramsay
2006-07-28 20:39 ` Daniel da Veiga
2006-07-28 21:03 ` Jim Ramsay
2006-07-28 21:03 ` Jim Ramsay
2006-08-07 16:53 ` Enrico Weigelt
2006-07-05 22:27 ` [gentoo-user] " Daniel Iliev
2006-07-05 22:43 ` Ryan Tandy
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