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From: Jorge Almeida <jalmeida@math.ist.utl.pt>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] NVIDIA updating weirdness
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On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Dave Jones wrote:

> Jorge Almeida wrote on 03/25/06 10:00:
>>     $ cat /etc/portage/package.mask
>>    >media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7676
>>    >media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.7676-r1
>>
> nvidia-kernel-1.0.8178-r3 is the current ~x86 version, and works fine
> with gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r1.
>
> Try removing the specific version numbers from your package.mask to get
> the latest version.
>
I did what you say and it really wants to emerge the new versions (only
did it with --pretend yet). But I still don't understand: what's the
meaning of ">" in the beginning of each line in
/etc/portage/package.mask? I thought it means that the version should be
1.0.7676 or _newer_? Am I wrong?

Thanks,

Jorge
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