From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E9gPW-0008U1-78 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 09:58:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7T9tMAY023103; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 09:55:22 GMT Received: from mxfep01.bredband.com (mxfep01.bredband.com [195.54.107.70]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7T9pZtN028341 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 09:51:35 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.102] ([85.224.245.192] [85.224.245.192]) by mxfep01.bredband.com with ESMTP id <20050829095329.TLDW3820.mxfep01.bredband.com@[192.168.0.102]> for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 11:53:29 +0200 Message-ID: <4312DB13.6050102@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 11:53:23 +0200 From: Nagatoro User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050723) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to instruct emerge to leave certain stuff alone References: <87r7cdtric.fsf@newsguy.com> <200508291206.25209.alex.tsr@gmail.com> <87mzn113r3.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <87mzn113r3.fsf@newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2b4a4d52-54d2-4d0c-b743-f76cfce99c61 X-Archives-Hash: bd19e2c19c2fc1b2f9e8ca038b6977f2 Harry Putnam wrote: > Alex writes: > Yes I saw that too, But that wasn't necessary before. So maybe new? > But it also raises another question. The emacs I wanted to keep is an > older version than the newest in portage. So do I enter that version? > > That is, will portage just ignore the fact that there is a newer > version. Or does it mean I need to put the newest version number in > /etc/portage/profile/package.provided > even though that isn't what I have? > From Harry Putnam's post: Portage will not attempt to update a package that is listed here unless another package explicitly requires a version that is newer than what has been listed. In my mind that means just that; as long as someother package doesn't _need_ a newer version portage will ignore all versions of the provided package. -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list