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 1P9OSe-0000Ss-26 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:43:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 70B23E08A6; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:43:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com (mail-ew0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30251E08A6 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:43:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy10 with SMTP id 10so1012299ewy.40 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:43:27 -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:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=SfvivahgTmWA8ko/f5FbOLFyOCWTkVDXQ1w4pGzw2G4=; b=G30dLBwkv1HQbkjUfE2x50sCcJAKm/ZmmwnBoVC4NYHfYOTepV3ENYNTihd0nlldvS gWxJ+YWNkj0RtoE9GreR0bP9On6KzZnKxCjopEaCFO31C7pE7oWbAhD5l1R13AqPWLJn nbL9mmXnyDzxlDdaCr/QNWHk/3KCEBqK81B/Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=h35RSMdUTjJScOElYI2wgaloLcSYQ7FbyfZCPWMyu/ODxtMKjdcRGsFsuP/SdrbANa RemWcGwUiAIUSKyvCFpCpSol8SldQNeMjRoGe+j04DKIk4O+Gfph4WRa8+nRsYB3kowO 4fzVHqc1zZ5sDC3GX25TYIWC9ov7W9PCGKS9g= Received: by 10.213.26.14 with SMTP id b14mr10158537ebc.15.1287780207516; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:43:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-2-42.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.2.42]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b52sm3805090eei.19.2010.10.22.13.43.24 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:43:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 22:44:02 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35-ck-r4; KDE/4.5.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Allan Gottlieb References: <4CBC1C21.2020202@taydin.org> <20101018114510.0931f3cd@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: 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 Message-Id: <201010222244.02415.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 26ae4f24-888e-4a63-acd1-4bf45f6626da X-Archives-Hash: a3a861592e79b05a5c2b9bbac8265568 Apparently, though unproven, at 16:11 on Friday 22 October 2010, Allan Gottlieb did opine thusly: [snip] > > 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 > > I tried this yesterday with great success. As mentioned in b.g.o. 7.8.2 > causes slowdowns for many people (including me). > This system is ~amd64 > > But this morning after an eix-sync, my normal update failed [snip] > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=media-libs/mesa-7.8_rc[nptl=]" have > been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to > complete your request: - media-libs/mesa-7.8.2 (masked by: package.mask) > /etc/portage/package.mask: > # This version of mesa 7.8.2 is rummored to cause slowdown > # The previous version 7.7.1 is rummored to be much better > # Masking only 7.8.2 so that future (fixed??) versions can be installed > > (dependency required by "x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.0.902" [ebuild]) > For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge > man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. > > Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] no > > Quitting. > > ajglap gottlieb # > > Perhaps I should be downgrading xorg-server as well. Masking mesa-7.8.2 means (per the ebuilds) you will have to drop back to xorg-server-1.7.7-r1. Both are latest stable versions. Or, you could always install the xorg overlay and build the latest git copy of mesa... > > Since I would rather have a slow X than an angry portage, > I removed the package mask and expected all to be well, but was > surprised by the following. In particular at the end it says there is > one block but I don't see any. [snip] Here you go: > [blocks b ] (" [ebuild U ] sys-apps/shadow-4.1.4.2-r6 [4.1.4.2-r5] USE="cracklib > nls pam -audit (-selinux) -skey" 1,749 kB Don't worry about it. I'm not sure if portage-2.1.9.20 will deal with this automagically (I *think* it does these days and 2.2 definitely does) but if not just emerge -C shadow ; emerge -1 shadow then emerge -avuND world. No good technical reason for doing shadow first apart from getting it over and done with while you watch and confirm it works fine. Then do world and wander over to the kettle letting portage go on with doing it's thing unattended -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com