From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PAR9Z-00016B-Gv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:48:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 31634E0971; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:47:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.80.33]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1505E0971 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:47:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ajglap.localdomain (128-122-140-123.DYNAPOOL.NYU.EDU [128.122.140.123]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o9PHlPcU005428 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:47:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ajglap.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id 660AB700F7; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:20:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Allan Gottlieb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated References: <4CBC1C21.2020202@taydin.org> <201010250034.59403.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <201010251022.40961.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:20:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: <201010251022.40961.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (Alan McKinnon's message of "Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:22:40 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (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; charset=us-ascii X-Archives-Salt: 3d261e80-f4ae-4a75-9a87-65bc9b448035 X-Archives-Hash: 44a19a680d7aa4eabdca3b94d68d06e5 Alan McKinnon writes: > Apparently, though unproven, at 02:26 on Monday 25 October 2010, Allan > Gottlieb did opine thusly: > >> Alan McKinnon writes: >> > Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you :-) >> > >> > Or in this case, it doesn't mean it's not justified. I now have buildpkg >> > enabled for @system - everything else I can re-run emerge to fix. >> >> Does this mean for portage -2.1.9.22 you advocate >> FEATURES="buildsyspkg" >> in make.conf? >> >> If so is that the correct line or do we need >> FEATURES="buildsyspkg sandbox" >> >> I find the man page wording a little unclear and its warning about an >> error serious. > > > You're adding extra stuff into the mix and confusing the issue. Forget about > sandbox in the context of this thread, just take whatever you have in FEATURES > and add buildsyspkg to it. That's it, nothing more, nothing less. OK. Since currently it is empty, I just need FEATURES=" buildsyspackage" i.e, I do NOT need to include sandbox. Yes? allan