From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ja4Dt-0002Iv-HU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:21:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D8944E0783; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:20:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.176]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C402BE0783 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:20:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id w53so4830466pyg.25 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:20:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=eHUqUBQhsWiijrE4+ztd74LsIJ41v0mAFiqa9Vc6Zn0=; b=PLKHTkE6pSbkH3RMY3emO1sxWirZgPBE219tLlKsO82D55fg3wkpgSoTp8tc2bxRg11Xmzz9Em+Q3/Kei6kFvueT7cuQGNLeSMjUONPDq5H8ffBr2P9iz5Fk3H6v2OO2NvOvsHV7YFSL2m2/NVhS0qVOlnZ33o5uxsJmxqT1+KY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=wfqL71MRz7pWVSUAzAUjduFD4PxXnI4YEZgSGNXWzgSPd7ezebraCxOXRnJ//IouxTqx5e2ZgxgEFsMpSolD6jgUw3tO/j9AilL2FmrinKutW6BM4k3bohLrqS3VxSXuwNGzCU5cCw13fbawE7/O4C/OOOJsErbuCXeHcP+BLUo= Received: by 10.65.81.10 with SMTP id i10mr22619406qbl.14.1205479258369; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:20:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.200.115? ( [196.211.71.34]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d2sm14348890qbc.36.2008.03.14.00.20.56 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:20:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999 Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:14:44 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <19834d100803132012m7ff7c64bh5da385207cc803bb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <19834d100803132012m7ff7c64bh5da385207cc803bb@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803140914.44406.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 29587598-cab0-4e43-928a-e68768300d0b X-Archives-Hash: 5ec877159c374c52005057f03cac5cff On Friday 14 March 2008, Gustavo Campos wrote: > Hi there. > > I have a "stable" system (I don't have ~x86 set), but I like to have > the latest versions of some specific software (kde, gnome, amarok, > alsa, pulseaudio, wine and so on). To achieve that, I've been using > autounmask with the parameter -n. When I have a package I want to > keep in the latest version, I just autounmask -n package, so all the > dependencies are unmasked and no version number is appended. > > That works fine, but I like to have the latest released versions, > which means I usually want to get away from the *9999 ebuilds. The > trouble is, when I use autounmask without version numbers, those 9999 > packages usually are choosen by portage, for being the effective > latest ones. > > I would like to know if there is a way for me to unmask > (automatically if possible) all versions BUT the 9999 ones, so I have > the latest releases but the less CVS/Beta packages as possible. I find autounmask does way too much for me, and does it blindly just like a dumb computer should. so I do it manually. However, you are using -n and at the same time trying to use it without -n... Trying deleting the autounmask files in /etc/portage/package.unmask/, that should go a long way to removing the CVS stuff (which is usually hard masked) leaving just package.keywords. You might have to manually resolve some conflicts now and then though - small price -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list