From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LSKBk-00013j-Ql for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:51:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 87758E03F8; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:51:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yx-out-1718.google.com (yx-out-1718.google.com [74.125.44.156]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6916CE03F8 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:51:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yx-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 4so2914950yxp.46 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:51:18 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=No8Hi9GmKWFtLqD6Xc1NmkYzO0lA/YHh/sfYo0vBywM=; b=GxTmKvHtJg+ERaFMqy5QsHs5ERQ/2VT3RoS47End1UkzHk5cAqt3ZZFVnLU+rOTB0c n7UhU0zS3tcHFaNfqku6ESRcP44qCl28Qankvk/ZJ4J24dg34CaeNF36hE/q4VE8ElSO Rs1yzSBFQ/A53xn/W+aDqA/Zu11ey293HOzlo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=CVFckvT0kD5u8Z4XOvfRRyKTXwURbfRbjrY8pJ25FDjjAoUXRQsJjl5iDP2vBlkxpr iTKpPMe5EQwHeMxZfHWlxUvh51DvzbIEZ2R8xNRKJERJnHT348SZytW7vM0STBU6CrOd tVmExF/+GgutbPA9yFoqfusANQ/kF+6KD41mw= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.90.69.15 with SMTP id r15mr2417511aga.45.1233186678055; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:51:18 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20090128201006.40b039f3@krikkit> References: <20090128153351.4D7B.0.NOFFLE@turbacz.local> <20090128201006.40b039f3@krikkit> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:51:18 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)? From: Joshua Murphy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 23e31acd-8a67-47f4-a4c3-66a8b7a1e542 X-Archives-Hash: 6ebe16c4968941bffaf5f0e68ef90438 On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:48:37 -0500, Joshua Murphy wrote: > >> > =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 > > That blocks all future updates, not just the broken one. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > If there is light at the end of the tunnel...order more tunnel. > Ah... I didn't read closely what the reason for wanting to hold at the current version was, in the little time I had at that moment I just threw an answer to the exact question in the title of the mail... "hold a package at a specific version" ... you're right, though, for the given reasons they're likely far better off only blocking the problematic one. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy