Re: [gentoo-user] How to degrade Gentoo system with webrsync method?

[Wol <antlists@youngman.org.uk>]

On 09/01/2022 13:39, Dale wrote:
> As a starting point, check the ebuild and see what all packages are
> listed there that it depends on.  Put the needed entries in package.mask
> and then use your world upgrade command plus -p to see what emerge wants
> to upgrade.  Keep adding until it is reporting nothing to upgrade.  The
> packages in the ebuild should help save some time.  I can't think of a
> easier way to do it.  Someone else may have ideas tho.  Oh, don't forget
> the ">=" signs and to specify versions.  Can't recall if it matters
> which symbol comes first.

Or do you want to use package.accept_keywords

I had a package that was in testing, so I've ended up creating a file in 
there called - I think the package was avidemux so that's what it's 
called ...

But in there it has the line(s)

=package.version ~amd64

I've deliberately used the "=" so for it, and every package it depends 
on, that version will be accepted. Aiui, if the stable version goes 
above that it will then upgrade to the stable version, so that my system 
will be pretty much just stable packages.

I also made the mistake of doing

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" emerge blah blah ...

which upgraded glibc! So now I need to configure this to keep the 
current version of glibc and wait till the stable version goes past.

Cheers,
Wol