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 1H51pP-0005xB-83 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:26:55 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0BFPj7N007696; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:25:45 GMT Received: from ender.volumehost.net (adsl-69-154-123-202.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net [69.154.123.202]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0BFLL1U026394 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:21:22 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5169A16E15 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:21:20 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at volumehost.net Received: from ender.volumehost.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ender.volumehost.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Md-+iTXnV6eQ for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:21:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from adsl-69-154-123-205.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net (adsl-69-154-123-205.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net [69.154.123.205]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11A9016E05 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:21:19 +0000 (UTC) From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated? Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:21:06 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: In-Reply-To: X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy 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="nextPart6299123.AFpaAUeMnL"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200701110921.18366.bss03@volumehost.net> X-Archives-Salt: 142eb3f5-1cae-4516-a544-266e92b7b7ed X-Archives-Hash: 3be0447d40540f09b75687a0eb0d1d8c --nextPart6299123.AFpaAUeMnL Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 11 January 2007 08:50, John Covici =20 wrote about '[gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?': > 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? Add an appropriate atom to your /etc/portage/package.mask file. There's a= =20 good section in the handbook about this, as well as it being documented in= =20 the various man pages installed with portage, such as man portage, man=20 ebuild, and man 5 ebuild. Very quickly: If you have cate-gory/package-1.5.3 installed, and=20 cate-gory/package-1.6.0_rc2 is available but you don't want to upgrade,=20 add >=3Dcate-gory/package-1.6* to your package.mask (If it's a -rX upgrade, or and increase in the 3rd (or later) number in the= =20 version, you probably want the upgrade. Really. The former is an ebuild=20 fix that won't change the upstream version you get (so, you will almost=20 never encounter upgrade issues); the later is (for most packages) a=20 security or bugfix release that should maintain compatibility with=20 previous versions (so, you will rarely encounter upgrade issues).) =2D-=20 "If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." =2D- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh --nextPart6299123.AFpaAUeMnL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBFplXuq72nDbhDXToRAgKAAKCk8V88WIqTjfvJuAPS46+akMf/3gCeNhCN 6GNltpYPDBL4ai0/RcjzBI8= =FF66 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart6299123.AFpaAUeMnL-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list