On 22 August 2011 10:29, Florian Philipp <li...@binarywings.net> wrote: > Am 22.08.2011 18:58, schrieb Hilco Wijbenga: >> Hi all, >> >> I just noticed that Portage wants me to upgrade to FF 6. I know, >> however, that (some of) my plugins don't run in FF6. Not a problem, >> I'll just mask FF6 ... oops ... there's no more FF5? >> >> Would it be possible to support FF5 a bit longer? The devs at FF may >> have gone a bit bananas but surely we don't have to follow suit? :-) >> >> Or is there a way to tell Portage to ignore upgrades but not downgrade FF? >> >> Cheers, >> Hilco >> > > Well, in any case, FF5 should at least be masked since it does not > receive security fixes. > > The cleanest way to preserve FF5 for you is to create an overlay > containing the latest version from Gentoo's CVS ([1 - 4].
Yes, that's what I've done in the mean time. > The easier way (as long as you don't have to re-emerge) is to add your > *current* version of FF to /etc/portage/package.provided. As `man > portage` states: Ah, thank you, I did not know about package.provided. > Portage will not attempt to update a package that is listed here > unless another package explicitly requires a version that is newer than > what has been listed. > > Or just mask FF completely and ignore all warnings of emerge about it. > > [1] http://anoncvs.gentoo.org/ > [2] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cvs-tutorial.xml > [3] > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/retrieving-deleted-files-from-cvs-464839/ > [4] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Overlay#Local_Overlays > > Hope this helps, > Florian Philipp
