Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

["Ryan Sims" <rwsims@gmail.com>]

On 1/11/07, John covici <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> If I have two versions on the systems, how would apache and the cli
> pick what version they are going to use?

I think there was just a thread on top-posting, btw.

IIRC, you pass "-DPHP5" or "-DPHP4" to apache in /etc/conf.d/apache
(or possibly /etc/conf.d/apache2).  As for cli, I'm not sure, I
haven't used it much.

> on Thursday 01/11/2007 Hans-Werner Hilse(hilse@web.de) wrote
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:38:38 -0500
>  > John covici <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
>  >
>  > > OK, I did put my php version in the /etc/portage/package.mask, but it
>  > > still wants to install a new major version -- curiously it says ebuild
>  > > -ns rather than just -n or -u.  I put the following line in there
>  > > =dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r8
>  >
>  > you don't want to mask the currently installed version (=), but rather the
>  > versions "greater" (>) than it.
>  >
>  > > which is my current version of php and emerge said
>  > > [ebuild  NS   ] dev-lang/php-5.1.6-r6  USE="berkdb cli crypt gdbm
>  > > [...]
>  >
>  > interesting. Yes, that "NS" is for a New, Slotted version. I.e., PHP4
>  > will still be on your system, so you might already stop worrying at
>  > this point. In fact, I don't really know how to mask a version in a
>  > different slot. I would have even expected my suggestion to do that
>  > anyway. But this makes much more sense, because there should be a
>  > seperate masking for each of the slots -- and it resembles the
>  > behaviour from the profile's masks. So you might add another line to
>  > your package.mask, following Boyd Stephen's suggestion to mask with
>  > ">=":
>  >
>  > >=dev-lang/php-5.0.0
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > -hwh
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