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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G2sk0-0007s7-Q0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:48:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6IGkkPW030321; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:46:46 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.185]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6IGcTcM011321 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:38:29 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id m19so3881nfc for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:38:29 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=T9xwPnltTLf/SVnGM4Qm0U1N5SE6ABmbE3O8yeUcL8MyuDGoor9tye5bb4G8S5we+P5VDE/fzm2pDmeifCbhgpTg6KipCi7c+ENxpQ83kKSMBtjUu2FwUKR9qdn5Zq9a1GuGpCrI90ClEQhWCmontfu6+CsqLUFN2tsWAVbXVio= Received: by 10.48.220.15 with SMTP id s15mr875793nfg; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:38:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.48.238.18 with HTTP; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:38:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49bf44f10607180938u6f5f992y947b3dc880d11029@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:38:29 -0700 From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Trying the masked version In-Reply-To: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <49bf44f10607180900v40d1af30j72d63fba6cb4f61d@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: b31a7237-c856-4e20-a16d-8f19c4671308 X-Archives-Hash: c27fa9bed7b054e182edfa2957b6b034 > > 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list