On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 18:30:33 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:

> 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.

This is Gentoo, "official" is a moving target. package.mask is good for
preventing upgrade to a specific version, but it can't be used to block
all updates on its own because eventually the older versions will be
treecleaned. That's why you need to keep them n a local overlay, and be
prepared to deal with any breakage they may introduce.


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