From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A3AE138010 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:32:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 45DCA21C00F; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:31:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.49.97]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DBFEE04AB for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:30:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ajglap.localdomain (ool-182de1a5.dyn.optonline.net [24.45.225.165]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q9HMUE0E024294 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:30:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ajglap.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id 878B170126; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:29:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Allan Gottlieb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] converting from testing to stable SLOWLY References: <20121017215416.1ec2ac93@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:29:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20121017215416.1ec2ac93@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (Neil Bothwick's message of "Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:54:16 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) 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 Content-Type: text/plain X-Archives-Salt: 2aa24885-9ee6-46fd-9847-0757adfc5b6e X-Archives-Hash: 345f59cbf4739ce6a4576f822a23552a On Wed, Oct 17 2012, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:18:50 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > >> A few months ago a procedure was given for converting from testing to >> stable (e.g. ~amd64-->~amd) by essentially waiting for stable to catch >> up. >> >> I believe the basic idea was to unmask a bunch of packages and then as >> stable catches up, remove the unmasks. I also believe there was some >> automated way to generate the unmasks and maybe a way to see when each >> is not needed. >> >> Can someone repost this msg? >> I foolishly did not save it and now want to convert a system to stable >> and can afford to do so slowly. > > You can generate the list with > > qlist -ICv | sed -e 's/^/~/' -e 's/-r[1-9]$//' >>/etc/portage/package.mask/goingstable > > This allows revision updates, which is useful as they usually contain bug > or security fixes, but doesn't allow any higher versions. > > Occasionally running eix-test-obsolete will let you know which entries > have become redundant because stable has caught up with them. Thanks you both (I incorporated the .use-->.mask) change). allan