[gentoo-user] How to instruct emerge to leave certain stuff alone

[gentoo-user] How to instruct emerge to leave certain stuff alone

[Harry Putnam]

I just ran an emerge world -u and at the beginning there were some
errors/warnings  about my lines in 
/etc/portage/profile/package.provided

I didn't save the error but it indicate my file would be ignored.

It contained 
dev-util/cvs
app-editors/emacs-cvs

I didn't want the emerge to mess with emacs.  I build my own for yrs
now.  However rather than investigate and fix, I just commented the
line out and proceeded.

Emerge installed the latest emacs and even overwrote my .emacs-custom
file. (Which seems it should not have, if it found one)

But what I want here now is to know how to handle this in the future.

That is, how to tell emerge that I want certain packages ignored or
left to me.

Last time around those lines in package.provided were sufficient but
apparantly something has changed.

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[gentoo-user] Re: How to instruct emerge to leave certain stuff alone

[Harry Putnam]

Alex <alex.tsr@gmail.com> writes:

> On Monday 29 August 2005 02:18, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> It contained
>> dev-util/cvs
>> app-editors/emacs-cvs
>
> According to the portage man-page you must include the version of
> the package

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?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to instruct emerge to leave certain stuff alone

[Nagatoro]

Harry Putnam wrote:
> Alex <alex.tsr@gmail.com> 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.

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Re: [gentoo-user] How to instruct emerge to leave certain stuff alone

[Alex]

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On Monday 29 August 2005 02:18, Harry Putnam wrote:
> It contained
> dev-util/cvs
> app-editors/emacs-cvs

According to the portage man-page you must include the version of the package 
too.

==================================================
	.
	.
	.
	.
package.provided
                     A list of  packages  (one  per  line)  that  portage
                     should  assume have been provided.  Useful for port-
                     ing to non-Linux systems.  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.  Basically, it's
                     a list that replaces the emerge --inject syntax.

                     For example, if you manage your own copy  of  a  2.6
                     kernel,  then  you  can  tell portage that 'sys-ker-
                     nel/development-sources-2.6.7' is already taken care
                     of and it should get off your back about it.

                     Format:
                     - comments begin with #
                     - one DEPEND atom per line
                     - relational operators are not allowed
                     - must include a version
	.
	.
	.
	.
======================================================

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to instruct emerge to leave certain stuff alone

[Alex]

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On Monday 29 August 2005 09:53, Nagatoro wrote:
> 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.

Yup, so you would only need to change the version of the package in 
packages.provided to a newer one only if you see it pulled as a dependency.
Just enter the latest version available in portage and you should be ok for a 
long time :)
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to instruct emerge to leave certain stuff alone

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 04:39:12 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:

> > According to the portage man-page you must include the version of
> > the package
> 
> 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?

Put the version you have installed in package.provided and
">category/package-version" in /etc/portage/package.mask.

This will tell portage that you have the version you have installed,
but not to try to update to a newer version. If you ever try to install a
package that requires a later version of emacs than you have, you'll get
an error and can deal with it manually, whereas putting later versions
in package.provided means you'll see no error until the dependent
package breaks.


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Neil Bothwick

I do not like this dumb machine
I really ought to sell it.
It never does just what I want
But only what I tell it.

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