Re: [gentoo-user] package version notification (~/+)?

[Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>]

At Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:06:07 -0400 "John J. Foster" <Gentoo-User@festus.150ml.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 08:07:24PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> 
>> No, but if you put a specific version in /etc/portage/package.keywords,
>> only that version will be installed from testing. It will only be
>> upgraded when a newer version goes stable.
>
> Neil - I _think_ this is what I have not been able to understand for
> over a year now. I run an almost entirely stable system, and want to
> keep it that way. But occassionally there is something I want that is
> currently ~x86, for instance amarok. So what you're saying is that if I
>
> #echo =media-sound/amarok-1.4.0a-r1 >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
>
> I will not get the next testing version of amarok, but will get the next
> stable?

Yes.  The line you are adding to package.keywords says that for *the
specific version listed* (since you begin with "=") you will emerge
it, if it is keyworded (or stable).  For any other version, in
particular for the next version issued from upstream, the line you
added says nothing.  Hence, since you are running a stable system,
only stable versions (except for 1.4.0a-r1) are eligible for emerging.

allan
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