From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G2sbL-0000Vi-8k for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:39:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6IGbR1L020249; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:37:27 GMT Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.140.230]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6IGUgSw010847 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:30:43 GMT Received: from localhost.localdomain (ool-44c4ebc7.dyn.optonline.net [68.196.235.199]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6IGUflr006227 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:30:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: by localhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id DD06ABB; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:30:41 -0400 (EDT) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Trying the masked version References: <49bf44f10607180900v40d1af30j72d63fba6cb4f61d@mail.gmail.com> From: Allan Gottlieb Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:30:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10607180900v40d1af30j72d63fba6cb4f61d@mail.gmail.com> (Grant's message of "Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:00:48 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Archives-Salt: 83cb4f74-e9fb-40c2-87bd-8ac5289644cb X-Archives-Hash: cfe14e711c3096324d04c4712ab99f91 At Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:00:48 -0700 Grant wrote: > What do you guys do when you want to try the masked version of a > package to fix a problem you're having with the stable version, but > you don't want to follow the ~x86 version indefinitely? I've just > been adding the package to package.keywords, but that obviously > follows the masked version until you remember to remove the entry. Is > there a better solution? Let assume the package is gnumeric version 1.6.3 Then put the following line into /etc/portage/package.keywords ~app-office/gnumeric-1.6.3 This way you will get -1.6.3 and, if there is a GENTOO version bump, to ~app-office/gnumeric-1.6.3-r1, you will get that as well even if it is keyword masked (i.e. is ~x86). But you will *not* get -1.6.4 if it is ~x86 so you will in good time return to a stable version. allan gottlieb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list