[gentoo-user] Trying the masked version

[gentoo-user] Trying the masked version

[Grant]

What do you guys do when you want to try the masked version of a
package to fix a problem you're having with the stable version, but
you don't want to follow the ~x86 version indefinitely?  I've just
been adding the package to package.keywords, but that obviously
follows the masked version until you remember to remove the entry.  Is
there a better solution?

- Grant
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Re: [gentoo-user] Trying the masked version

[Allan Gottlieb]

At Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:00:48 -0700 Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:

> What do you guys do when you want to try the masked version of a
> package to fix a problem you're having with the stable version, but
> you don't want to follow the ~x86 version indefinitely?  I've just
> been adding the package to package.keywords, but that obviously
> follows the masked version until you remember to remove the entry.  Is
> there a better solution?

Let assume the package is gnumeric version 1.6.3
Then put the following line into /etc/portage/package.keywords

   ~app-office/gnumeric-1.6.3

This way you will get -1.6.3 and, if there is a GENTOO version bump,
to ~app-office/gnumeric-1.6.3-r1, you will get that as well even if it
is keyword masked (i.e. is ~x86).  But you will *not* get -1.6.4 if it
is ~x86 so you will in good time return to a stable version.

allan gottlieb

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Re: [gentoo-user] Trying the masked version

[Grant]

> > What do you guys do when you want to try the masked version of a
> > package to fix a problem you're having with the stable version, but
> > you don't want to follow the ~x86 version indefinitely?  I've just
> > been adding the package to package.keywords, but that obviously
> > follows the masked version until you remember to remove the entry.  Is
> > there a better solution?
>
> Let assume the package is gnumeric version 1.6.3
> Then put the following line into /etc/portage/package.keywords
>
>    ~app-office/gnumeric-1.6.3
>
> This way you will get -1.6.3 and, if there is a GENTOO version bump,
> to ~app-office/gnumeric-1.6.3-r1, you will get that as well even if it
> is keyword masked (i.e. is ~x86).  But you will *not* get -1.6.4 if it
> is ~x86 so you will in good time return to a stable version.
>
> allan gottlieb

That's perfect, thanks Allan.

- Grant
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Re: [gentoo-user] Trying the masked version

[Daniel da Veiga]

On 7/18/06, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
> What do you guys do when you want to try the masked version of a
> package to fix a problem you're having with the stable version, but
> you don't want to follow the ~x86 version indefinitely?  I've just
> been adding the package to package.keywords, but that obviously
> follows the masked version until you remember to remove the entry.  Is
> there a better solution?
>

Use the operators (~,>, <, =) and specify the version.

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