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 1Lhfwc-0002f7-4G for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:07:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0B24EE0324; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:07:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f125.google.com (mail-qy0-f125.google.com [209.85.221.125]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4D2CE0324 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:07:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk31 with SMTP id 31so592455qyk.32 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:07:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=qMgPxNlRchrIsR0A1o8jvsQK8BsdrysCWdI9GCcaTfI=; b=bYgOvDu216Hswh+Tnnvhw9t+H2hegf8f/O4cCb5MBq6f3lOu3fFRuyzcdLFDOzxyZD Ur0h89UzBM8pywq8g4IG+P1S5N4dftIgypGyEKLCL6PmCMRrmAELcE7Ww56Hn7GJlSjq Bxl2BgLDDLlLbE3zfj2ylnggpYtbuVOW0Wnlk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=D4RsRw0/+g2ZErUpWJfRIKz9dmZv9R5PCnWRF2KhPw1P4efE+xwwnCFTCCTJogD/Uf RkmFKFYasECp8BQGXhoDrHhi1AxBrhanng+ieIRvkWta0CqE9Ap954+lyfFs43XomY8t df8bMqr3xe3wweZVfyVLpJLVFZw80sMHD4tm0= Received: by 10.224.37.14 with SMTP id v14mr12689535qad.133.1236845228547; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:07:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?4.230.117.118? (dialup-4.230.117.118.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.230.117.118]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm980364yxt.54.2009.03.12.01.07.06 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:07:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49B8C2A7.1090401@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:07:03 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081227 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system References: <20090311134054.4a4de361@lappy.evolone.org> <200903120956.47288.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200903120956.47288.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 223a5d04-9a4c-45e0-9015-39065956f442 X-Archives-Hash: c1a5468f50cfd761c1c4fc54601ada9a Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 11 March 2009 22:40:54 Michael Higgins wrote: > >> Don't know the proper term, but I want to stop version updates for a while, >> yet allow package-rN updates... >> > > This doesn't seem to be a built-in feature of portage after a quick scan of > the man pages. But I can think of a method to do it the long way round: > > The atom syntax you want is ~ which means any -rN version (including > -r0) of the base version. > > You could grab a complete list of your system and world (emerge -et), mangle > it into shape with grep, sed and awk and redirect the whole lot to a > package.mask file in a format something like this: > > >> app-1.1.0~ >> > > > >> I spent most of the last couple of days killing two bugs that were a >> serious drag on my laptop, involving kacpid hogging the CPU on a resume, or >> bay swap, and gnome panel freezing on > 7 open windows (a real deal >> killer). I'd like to spend a few months just using it now that it all >> works... >> >> So with the latest kernel in the tree unmasked (kacpid bug fix) and a >> couple of patches and ebuilds in my overlay for a pair of unmasked x11 and >> gnome packages, what is the method to keep this 'world' in a 'set' and >> 'forgotten' state? '-) >> >> Cheers, >> > > Could he just not sync and call it a day? I suspect this is going to bite him one day tho. We know Gentoo likes to be updated fairly regular. I been around Gentoo for years and I don't think I would want to do this. I'm not sure how much experience the OP has tho. I do understand that getting something stable and working then wanting to keep it that way. I'm just wondering what his mileage may be in the long run. Dale :-) :-)