On Friday 14 March 2008, Gustavo Campos wrote: > Hi there. > > I have a "stable" system (I don't have ~x86 set), but I like to have > the latest versions of some specific software (kde, gnome, amarok, > alsa, pulseaudio, wine and so on). To achieve that, I've been using > autounmask with the parameter -n. When I have a package I want to > keep in the latest version, I just autounmask -n package, so all the > dependencies are unmasked and no version number is appended. > > That works fine, but I like to have the latest released versions, > which means I usually want to get away from the *9999 ebuilds. The > trouble is, when I use autounmask without version numbers, those 9999 > packages usually are choosen by portage, for being the effective > latest ones. > > I would like to know if there is a way for me to unmask > (automatically if possible) all versions BUT the 9999 ones, so I have > the latest releases but the less CVS/Beta packages as possible.
I find autounmask does way too much for me, and does it blindly just like a dumb computer should. so I do it manually. However, you are using -n and at the same time trying to use it without -n... Trying deleting the autounmask files in /etc/portage/package.unmask/, that should go a long way to removing the CVS stuff (which is usually hard masked) leaving just package.keywords. You might have to manually resolve some conflicts now and then though - small price -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
