On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Pupino <pupi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everybody, > i'm having troubles with the policykit package, and i've discovered > that the new version (0.92) has broken all APIs and this causes some > packages to not compile anymore (network manager in my case). > So i tried to mask it and keep the 0.9-r1 version instead, but with no > result. > I've added it to /etc/portage/package.mask and tried this forms: > =sys-auth/policykit-0.92 > >=sys-auth/policykit-0.92 > and also > sys-auth/policykit-0.92 > that should prenvet any version of it being merged, right? > none of those attempts worked for me, and emerge keeps trying to merge > it... > i'm running a x86 system with no accept keywords set. > any ideas? > > Thanks in advance. > Davide > > Other people replied with the fixes, but I just want to chime in and say 1 of those isn't a valid package atom: sys-auth/policykit-0.92
The other 2 are valid. The first one will mask only version 0.92. The 2nd one will obviously mask 0.92 and above. If you want to mask all policykit versions, just add: sys-auth/policykit -- - Mark Shields
