Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system

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

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On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:13:30 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> > Could he just not sync and call it a day?  I suspect this is going to
> > bite him one day tho.  We know Gentoo likes to be updated fairly
> > regular.  I been around Gentoo for years and I don't think I would
> > want to do this.  I'm not sure how much experience the OP has tho.  
> 
> Michael's been around a while, his name is familiar. He did say he
> wants -rN updates so I take that to mean he wants bug fixes and
> security updates but everything else to stay that same and especially
> no potential ABI/API changes

One potential problem is ebuilds disappearing from the portage tree as
packages are updated, so it would be worth copying everything he uses (or
the whole tree) into an overlay.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning
to others.

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