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 1LSCV2-00062J-S6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:38:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F28C5E041B; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:38:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2DBAE041B for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:38:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EE79648E5 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:38:41 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.99 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.99 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=1.610, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id eyRwGAVXX1zM for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:38:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C576A6433C for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:38:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LSCUk-0008SA-7b for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:38:26 +0000 Received: from polica.at.xencon.net ([83.246.72.208]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:38:26 +0000 Received: from public by polica.at.xencon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:38:26 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Miernik Subject: [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)? Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:33:51 +0100 Message-ID: <20090128153351.4D7B.0.NOFFLE@turbacz.local> X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: polica.at.xencon.net User-Agent: tin/1.9.3-20080506 ("Dalintober") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.26-1-686 (i686)) Sender: news 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 X-Archives-Salt: bcd9d189-c070-438f-b731-4cd9806238ec X-Archives-Hash: 67c6b8d527fe7b2aadd37f835b2a92c9 I am doing a 'emerge -uD' but one of the packages the version currently in portage doesn't compile, so I want to keep my current version, and prevent emerge from trying to update it. How can I put a package on hold (like in Debian)? I tried inserting: =x11-wm/awesome-3.1-r1 ~amd64 in /etc/portage/package.keywords but 'emerge -uD world' still tries to build x11-wm/awesome-3.1.1 which fails, so the whole process is stopped.