From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8C70C1396D0 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2017 01:35:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A3F5A2BC016; Wed, 27 Sep 2017 01:35:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from blaine.gmane.org (unknown [195.159.176.226]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3E6AA2BC002 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2017 01:35:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dx1Fh-000602-76 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Sep 2017 03:35:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Kai Krakow Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Changing dependencies without upping version ?? Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 03:35:04 +0200 Message-ID: <20170927033504.4f7cb5b0@jupiter.sol.kaishome.de> References: <20170924173753.bxpluo4s6f42uojo@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> <20170925170341.74api4s3evxsbly4@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> <0fbc546c-bd8f-a6d9-b3dc-1cdd50fcf336@gentoo.org> <20170926184544.ng6dzg4njfye4v3u@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> <20170927023835.5044b622@jupiter.sol.kaishome.de> <20170927013033.swgykevoswge5oer@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> 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=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.13.2 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Archives-Salt: 1b0f2a06-83f6-4b47-aa67-ba675dff9cc2 X-Archives-Hash: 756dc08e84bc3e933fb796033d77fad0 Am Tue, 26 Sep 2017 18:30:33 -0700 schrieb Ian Zimmerman : > On 2017-09-27 02:38, Kai Krakow wrote: > > > If you don't want (or cannot) upgrade, you have two options: > > > > 1. Prepare to maintain your own overlay and deal with it > > > > 2. Don't use a rolling release distribution > > > > Personally, and since you seem to know enough to manage your own > > overlay, I'd stick to #1. > > I do so already, and in fact my initial workaround was to fork the > ebuild in my repo, pretty much like you recommend. > > But I didn't know that this was the official way of stopping upgrades. > I thought package.mask was that, and I think that's what the Handbook > (or maybe some other part of the wiki) recommends. Yes, masking of course. But at some point in time, the ebuild would be dropped. And you may want to keep it around for rebuilds. -- Regards, Kai Replies to list-only preferred.