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 1LiQKd-0005tD-DF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 14 Mar 2009 09:39:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 84525E0336; Sat, 14 Mar 2009 09:39:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 442A6E0336 for ; Sat, 14 Mar 2009 09:39:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7C9093D5D18 for ; Sat, 14 Mar 2009 09:39:00 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 09:38:53 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system Message-ID: <20090314093853.6fcd55e3@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1236988532.13579.21.camel@nazgul> References: <20090311134054.4a4de361@lappy.evolone.org> <1236988532.13579.21.camel@nazgul> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1cvs11 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/97mVPAdepMe+BTKgSdv=mtE"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 18be2446-31ca-465c-b5d5-0f93c3d17feb X-Archives-Hash: abecff1a9b52326928ba4b32a710874c --Sig_/97mVPAdepMe+BTKgSdv=mtE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:55:32 -0400, Sean wrote: > I don't think there's a real good way to accomplish this, but the > approach I would take is to setup a local portage tree that the system > syncs from. You could then cherry pick the ebuild updates that go into > that local, and now customized, portage tree.=20 There was some discussion on the dev list a while ago abut providing alternate portage trees that were not updated except for security and bug fixes. It would have provided just what you want, but I don't think anything came of it. --=20 Neil Bothwick Windows isn't a virus -- viruses do something! --Sig_/97mVPAdepMe+BTKgSdv=mtE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkm7ezIACgkQum4al0N1GQOQXgCcCVJLYBSLB873jMnZIEgUrC/4 3IwAn0Spz8tGDugNziqM7wOhWeaN0pAP =fFKi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/97mVPAdepMe+BTKgSdv=mtE--