From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org, Miernik <public@public.miernik.name>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:08:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D2188C79-63CE-432E-8E5F-E6FC45F5EC1B@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090128153351.4D7B.0.NOFFLE@turbacz.local>
On 28 Jan 2009, at 15:33, Miernik wrote:
> I am doing a 'emerge -uD' but one of the packages the version
> currently
> in portage doesn't compile, so I want to keep my current version, and
> prevent emerge from trying to update it. How can I put a package on
> hold
> (like in Debian)?
>
> I tried inserting:
>
> =x11-wm/awesome-3.1-r1 ~amd64
>
> in /etc/portage/package.keywords
>
> but 'emerge -uD world' still tries to build x11-wm/awesome-3.1.1
> which fails, so the whole process is stopped.
I think you need to use /etc/portage/package.mask instead.
Stroller.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-28 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-28 15:33 [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)? Miernik
2009-01-28 16:08 ` Stroller [this message]
2009-01-28 16:48 ` Joshua Murphy
2009-01-28 20:10 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-01-28 20:41 ` momesso.andrea
2009-01-28 21:22 ` Man Shankar
2009-01-29 9:13 ` [gentoo-user] " Miernik
2009-01-29 13:19 ` Sebastian Günther
2009-01-29 13:53 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-01-28 23:51 ` [gentoo-user] " Joshua Murphy
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