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 1NM0zm-0004rz-SL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:13:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7E81FE076B; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:12:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.storm.ca (mail.storm.ca [209.87.239.66]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ECA4E076B for ; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:12:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from anton.digitaltorque.ca (hs-216-106-102-79.storm.ca [216.106.102.79]) by mail.storm.ca (8.14.2+Sun/8.14.2) with ESMTP id nBJFCWEq004676 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:12:38 -0500 (EST) Received: by anton.digitaltorque.ca (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C500C860022; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:12:26 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:12:26 -0500 From: "Michael P. Soulier" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] freezing a package Message-ID: <20091219151224.GU9113@anton.digitaltorque.ca> 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; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3mUD2hqWbnBptYHy" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Archives-Salt: e40d4007-ea51-437b-88b3-8efbcaeaff4e X-Archives-Hash: 0001e893cc7d18df64c6550e2a5f52a0 --3mUD2hqWbnBptYHy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable If I want to freeze my nvidia-drivers because any upgrade will abandon my hardware, masking out newer versions doesn't seem to be enough as it will a= lso offer to downgrade once that version is no longer in the portage tree. Is it simpler to just remove nvidia-drivers from the world file? Thanks, Mike --=20 Michael P. Soulier "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 --3mUD2hqWbnBptYHy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLLO1YKGqCc1vIvggRAt39AJ9yRt/EYTS7SFtTST4OIgbK5wwkqQCfWECX vPYyKtKDKhVNUI1GAum57Do= =qneO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3mUD2hqWbnBptYHy--