[gentoo-user] keeping an installed version

[gentoo-user] keeping an installed version

[Michael P. Soulier]

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Hi,

I'm trying to understand package masking. If I want to keep a version of a
package, if I mask-out anything higher than the current version then I figured
that would accomplish the task.

Currently I have media-video/nvidia-settings-169.07

If I want to keep this, I thought I could add this to
/etc/portage/package.mask

>media-video/nvidia-settings-169.07

but if I run

emerge --update --pretend --deep world

I get

[ebuild     UD] media-video/nvidia-settings-1.0.20070621 [169.07]

I don't understand why it wants to downgrade the package from 169.07. I'm
obviously missing something.

Thanks,
Mike
-- 
Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca>
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a
touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
--Albert Einstein

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Re: [gentoo-user] keeping an installed version

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:48:41 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:

> [ebuild     UD] media-video/nvidia-settings-1.0.20070621 [169.07]
> 
> I don't understand why it wants to downgrade the package from 169.07.
> I'm obviously missing something.

Because 169.07 is no longer in portage, you've masked out newer versions
so an older one is the only option.

If you want to lock a package to a specific version, you should copy the
ebuild to your overlay to stop this happening.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?

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Re: [gentoo-user] keeping an installed version

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thursday 19 March 2009 23:48:41 Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to understand package masking. If I want to keep a version of a
> package, if I mask-out anything higher than the current version then I
> figured that would accomplish the task.
>
> Currently I have media-video/nvidia-settings-169.07
>
> If I want to keep this, I thought I could add this to
> /etc/portage/package.mask
>
> >media-video/nvidia-settings-169.07
>
> but if I run
>
> emerge --update --pretend --deep world
>
> I get
>
> [ebuild     UD] media-video/nvidia-settings-1.0.20070621 [169.07]
>
> I don't understand why it wants to downgrade the package from 169.07. I'm
> obviously missing something.

You asked for an update so portage will examine the tree and update everything 
that can be updated.

nvidia-settings-169.07 is NOT in the tree so portage wants to update it, and 
the only version that satisfies is 1.0.20070621. It is also the only possible 
version left for you to use after that mask.

I recommend you find the ebuild for your current version in /var somewhere and 
mvoe it to a local overlay where it can be safe

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

[gentoo-user] Re: keeping an installed version

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Alan McKinnon wrote:
 > I recommend you find the ebuild for your current version in /var
somewhere and
> mvoe it to a local overlay where it can be safe
> 

That file will be found on your system at:
/var/db/pkg/media-video/nvidia-settings-169.07/nvidia-settings-169.07.ebuild

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