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 1QvZ9s-00061d-Ti for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:23:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1EFD621C2EA; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:23:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78FE621C2AF for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:22:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywb5 with SMTP id 5so4782495ywb.40 for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:22:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=uaUsdMvuw2EC8dU9IIaESP35zcSibI3CjYjrrd61I6Q=; b=ODaZu4s3m87rHQp68Cb6NmwnLn1gD3RkfU3Me/cKPVPfI2bVbX28Uj+YVtBQ9b28Mb 9yEBG2ebvdj6mJJmVFno0S1KM5Valq2qMVW/qY9Iv4rmOMGSwzsfvpngpPWTBv0nDifU wYgkD6Mis0r6O0ncfK5x0lAilMHpD3Xch1Cd0= 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 Received: by 10.236.145.130 with SMTP id p2mr16199302yhj.125.1314037342987; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:22:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.207.67 with HTTP; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:22:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E52920A.40004@binarywings.net> References: <4E52920A.40004@binarywings.net> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:22:22 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 5 missing From: Hilco Wijbenga To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: fdb3b148c6b29d0e52e632750c834d52 On 22 August 2011 10:29, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 22.08.2011 18:58, schrieb Hilco Wijbenga: >> Hi all, >> >> I just noticed that Portage wants me to upgrade to FF 6. I know, >> however, that (some of) my plugins don't run in FF6. Not a problem, >> I'll just mask FF6 ... oops ... there's no more FF5? >> >> Would it be possible to support FF5 a bit longer? The devs at FF may >> have gone a bit bananas but surely we don't have to follow suit? :-) >> >> Or is there a way to tell Portage to ignore upgrades but not downgrade F= F? >> >> Cheers, >> Hilco >> > > Well, in any case, FF5 should at least be masked since it does not > receive security fixes. > > The cleanest way to preserve FF5 for you is to create an overlay > containing the latest version from Gentoo's CVS ([1 - 4]. Yes, that's what I've done in the mean time. > The easier way (as long as you don't have to re-emerge) is to add your > *current* version of FF to /etc/portage/package.provided. As `man > portage` states: Ah, thank you, I did not know about package.provided. > Portage =C2=A0will =C2=A0not attempt to update a package that is listed h= ere > unless another package explicitly requires a version that is newer than > what has been listed. > > Or just mask FF completely and ignore all warnings of emerge about it. > > [1] http://anoncvs.gentoo.org/ > [2] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cvs-tutorial.xml > [3] > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/retrieving-del= eted-files-from-cvs-464839/ > [4] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Overlay#Local_Overlays > > Hope this helps, > Florian Philipp