From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:45:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101018114510.0931f3cd@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CBC1C21.2020202@taydin.org>
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On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:06:25 +0300, Timur Aydin wrote:
> I am using the ~x86 (testing) version of gentoo linux. After recent
> updates, my X windows became extremely sluggish and I found out that the
> problem is related to a new version of mesa (7.8.2 specifically). So I
> downgraded to version 7.7.1 and my desktop works great again.
>
> Now I want to prevent mesa from being updated until this issue is sorted
> out upstream. I have looked at package.provide, but that didn't work.
> Currently, I have placed media-libs/mesa into my
> /etc/portage/package.mask file and this seems to do the trick. Is this
> the recommended way for handling this situation?
package.mask is the right place, but you should add the specific version.
Then the system will only upgrade when a newer (hopefully fixed) version
arrives.
=media-libs/mesa-7.8.2
--
Neil Bothwick
WindowError:01B Illegal error. Do NOT get this error.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-18 10:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-18 10:06 [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated Timur Aydin
2010-10-18 10:17 ` KH
2010-10-18 10:45 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2010-10-22 14:11 ` Allan Gottlieb
2010-10-22 20:44 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-10-23 3:13 ` Allan Gottlieb
2010-10-23 9:06 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-10-23 13:12 ` Allan Gottlieb
2010-10-23 11:50 ` daid kahl
2010-10-23 13:12 ` Allan Gottlieb
2010-10-24 22:34 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-10-25 0:26 ` Allan Gottlieb
2010-10-25 2:36 ` Dale
2010-10-25 8:24 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-10-25 13:09 ` Bill Longman
2010-10-25 13:49 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-10-25 8:34 ` Fatih Tümen
2010-10-25 13:00 ` [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated -> OT parallel-fetch KH
2010-10-25 8:22 ` [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated Alan McKinnon
2010-10-25 16:20 ` Allan Gottlieb
2010-10-25 18:01 ` Yohan Pereira
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