Daniel Frey wrote: > On 6/19/19 11:27 AM, Grant Taylor wrote: >> On 6/19/19 11:37 AM, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote: >>> echo '>sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.15' >> >>> /etc/portage/package.mask/kernels >> >> Perfect! >> >> Thank you. :-) >> >> I did name the file /etc/portage/package.mask/gentoo-sources as I >> like to name the file after the package that it's meant to effect. >> >> The testing is even better than I had originally hoped. >> gentoo-sources-4.14.127.ebuild came in since I did my updates a few >> days ago. So now emerge is telling me there is a new version of >> gentoo-sources, that is within my specified parameters. :-) >> >> >> > > I was thinking about this for a bit, and thought that maybe adding the > slot to the package in /var/lib/portage/world would work. > > So, using `emerge --select` and `emerge --deselect` I set up my world > file this way: > > # grep -i gentoo-sources /var/lib/portage/world > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:4.14.105-r1 > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:4.14.114 > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:4.14.83 > > I removed all other kernel packages manually so only those three are > installed. > > However, portage still wants to install the latest gentoo-sources, > even though the generic "sys-kernel/gentoo-sources" is absent from the > world file. > > I figured this would be a way to manually update the kernel without > having to manually add and remove masks. Darn. > > That's not how I'd expect portage to handle that situation (or maybe > it's just me?) Can a dev chime in? > > Dan > >
I don't think my way will be any better but this is how I do it. I mask gentoo-sources completely until I want to update. When I want to update, I comment out the mask in the mask file and uncomment the entry in the keyword file. At that point I can emerge whatever version I want and then undo the changes when I've emerged it. The bad thing about this, sometimes I have to use exclude gentoo-sources from things such as --depclean. It's annoying but it's the only way I could come up with to do this. Honestly, I'm not sure there is a easy way to do this. No matter how it is done, it causes some other annoying issue to pop up. I was hoping someone had a really nifty idea on this which is why I'm also following this thread. My way might be a option but then again, you may not like it for the same reasons I don't. ;-) Dale :-) :-)
