From: Joshua Murphy <poisonbl@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
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 11:48:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c30988c30901280848ka33d638ycfd11742c9dc6b7e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090128153351.4D7B.0.NOFFLE@turbacz.local>
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Miernik <public@public.miernik.name> 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.
echo \>x11-wm/awesome-3.1-r1 >> /etc/portage/package.mask
# and to prevent downgrades
echo \<x11-wm/awesome-3.1-r1 >> /etc/portage/package.mask
--
Poison [BLX]
Joshua M. Murphy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-28 16:48 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
2009-01-28 16:48 ` Joshua Murphy [this message]
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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