Re: [gentoo-user] package.mask and my thick skull
On Mon, 15 May 2006 16:52:21 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: But why would you want to do this? If a patch level update is released, there may be a good reason. I'd prefer to leave things alone until an update is realsed. Then check the Changelog and mask the specific version if I don't need it. So you can run emerge -uD world without fetching an 100MB file from the net and taking 7 hours to compile it? That would only happen if you blindly ran emerge --update world with --ask or --pretend. If you checked first, you would see the update and be able to read the Changelog before deciding whether to mask that one update. Running emerge --update automatically is potentially dangerous, as is ignoring security updates. Combining the two is not something I'd be prepared to risk. There wouldn't be a big download anyway, not for a patch level upgrade, unless you had cleared $DISTDIR. -- Neil Bothwick Bug: (n.) any program feature not yet described to the marketing department. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] package.mask and my thick skull
On Mon, 15 May 2006 12:44:05 -0400, John J. Foster wrote: I currently have app-office/openoffice ~x86# in package.keywords app-office/openoffice-2.0.2-r2 is currently installed I would like to be able to mask all updates until app-office/openoffice-2.0.3 or app-office/openoffice-2.1 Use /etc/portage/package.keywords =app-office/openoffice-2.0.2-r2 ~x86 =app-office/openoffice-2.0.3 ~x86 Make sure you run 'glsa-check -t all', otherwise you won't know if a security flaw turns up that is fixed in 2.0.2-r3. -- Neil Bothwick Accordion: a bagpipe with pleats. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] package.mask and my thick skull
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 06:14:41PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 15 May 2006 12:44:05 -0400, John J. Foster wrote: I currently have app-office/openoffice ~x86# in package.keywords app-office/openoffice-2.0.2-r2 is currently installed I would like to be able to mask all updates until app-office/openoffice-2.0.3 or app-office/openoffice-2.1 Use /etc/portage/package.keywords =app-office/openoffice-2.0.2-r2 ~x86 =app-office/openoffice-2.0.3 ~x86 Just for arguments sake, let's say I wanted to run openoffice stable only. First I remove app-office/openoffice ~x86 from package.keywords and reemerge app-office/openoffice-2.0.2-r1. Now, where do I specify that I only want the next stable openoffice if it's at least -2.0.3 ? festus -- It is not unusual for those at the wrong end of the club to have a clearer picture of reality than those who wield it. Noam Chomsky pgpO8zbNM5qoO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] package.mask and my thick skull
Daniel da Veiga wrote: This should work OK, and the original poster could simply read: man portage And learn all of this and more! I think the original poster has the same problem as me, I just use trial and error and the -p option, a lot sometimes. It took me at least a half dozen tries the other day to fix something. Man pages are good but only if you can make sense of them, which he said they didn't. ;-) I'm with him on that one for sure. :-) Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
