Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:10:29 +0100, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:

> 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.

It would be better to use ">~pkg-category/package-0.0.1". this allows
patch level updates, such as 0.0.1-r1 while not permitting an update to a
higher upstream version.

Patch level updates, -r1, -r2 etc, install the same version but with some
changes, such as security fixes.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make
it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way
is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
The first method is far more difficult" -C.A.R. Hoare

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