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 1FxaTW-0001YP-1t for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 02:17:18 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k642FjXX013443; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 02:15:45 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 k6429wpW010572 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 02:09:59 GMT Received: from localhost.localdomain (ool-4578dd70.dyn.optonline.net [69.120.221.112]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6429w1Z025042 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 22:09:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: by localhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id DAA5889; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 22:09:53 -0400 (EDT) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] package version notification (~/+)? References: <44A95F30.7080805@gmx.net> <20060703200724.646085fc@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <20060704010607.GB8426@garbanzo> From: Allan Gottlieb Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 22:09:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20060704010607.GB8426@garbanzo> (John J. Foster's message of "Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:06:07 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) 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: c0217b2a-0002-4734-bf18-1ce2c41e2f2e X-Archives-Hash: 4530141436ac14d1192d1ecd0e30ee51 At Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:06:07 -0400 "John J. Foster" 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list