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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
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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.