From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lhfnr-0001Od-5N for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:58:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E8D38E02B0; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:58:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.189]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A710BE02B0 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:58:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b11so82143nfh.26 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:58:05 -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=nA30qQfnEYSGsHZWBjlyUFZPVXzKWMczEqwR8p8Fybo=; b=ULskLG68SRq+xWfl/CICNnuRoRtmQOOqZCwLkM2FZ+rNS4boFIjxoMkMPFQ7zsMmQI FKRXyxOqn1xV9eVMWeUbyWOmUr1fc1QSJ0ED/INTPVkL9ZhlQci8jMZgINJnuzttCpad EpDvmc8+OoC35NIdmIT7t0GHGMsKvB/9xrptw= 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=mfxHWv3Kw3viq0kN7mcUYFu8NYOkizJ6beMXMZrSyVa7en62kW5F2przQD3o+UWRsl gbf0bO9xhuUMPE+TC+Ct1k+IGX0seVcURV385ByErbdcW+WWJZBs6kTxiSBQlbQuRd3D Re84xVPa/KUB/9o3Jn4VzAcDnODusa3vJxHt8= Received: by 10.210.18.18 with SMTP id 18mr5150976ebr.11.1236844685122; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:58:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-227-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm355020eye.19.2009.03.12.00.58.03 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:58:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:56:47 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.1 (Linux/2.6.28-gentoo-r2; KDE/4.2.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <20090311134054.4a4de361@lappy.evolone.org> In-Reply-To: <20090311134054.4a4de361@lappy.evolone.org> 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: <200903120956.47288.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 38ef18f2-8bce-4109-9805-d5e0cd11e003 X-Archives-Hash: fb5b45aab9e8da767ef88a12acee3f97 On Wednesday 11 March 2009 22:40:54 Michael Higgins wrote: > Don't know the proper term, but I want to stop version updates for a while, > yet allow package-rN updates... This doesn't seem to be a built-in feature of portage after a quick scan of the man pages. But I can think of a method to do it the long way round: The atom syntax you want is ~ which means any -rN version (including -r0) of the base version. You could grab a complete list of your system and world (emerge -et), mangle it into shape with grep, sed and awk and redirect the whole lot to a package.mask file in a format something like this: >app-1.1.0~ > > I spent most of the last couple of days killing two bugs that were a > serious drag on my laptop, involving kacpid hogging the CPU on a resume, or > bay swap, and gnome panel freezing on > 7 open windows (a real deal > killer). I'd like to spend a few months just using it now that it all > works... > > So with the latest kernel in the tree unmasked (kacpid bug fix) and a > couple of patches and ebuilds in my overlay for a pair of unmasked x11 and > gnome packages, what is the method to keep this 'world' in a 'set' and > 'forgotten' state? '-) > > Cheers, -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com