Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 02:26 on Monday 25 October 2010, Allan Gottlieb did opine thusly: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you :-) Or in this case, it doesn't mean it's not justified. I now have

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 04:36 on Monday 25 October 2010, Dale did opine thusly: Then again, Alan knows Gentoo pretty well and may know that he doesn't need sandbox. Once for fun I build a gentoo system in VirtualBox and left sandbox out by accident. The results were ... awful. Bad

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-25 Thread Fatih Tümen
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:36 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: FEATURES= buildpkg sandbox fixpackages parallel-fetch --keep-going I thought --keep-going goes into EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, no? --    Fatih

[gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated - OT parallel-fetch

2010-10-25 Thread KH
Am 25.10.2010 04:36, schrieb Dale: FEATURES= buildpkg sandbox fixpackages parallel-fetch --keep-going Hi, parallel-fetch is default and no need to list it in make.conf any more. I notices when I had to add -parallel-fetch to one of my boxes. kh

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-25 Thread Bill Longman
On 10/25/2010 01:24 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 04:36 on Monday 25 October 2010, Dale did opine thusly: Then again, Alan knows Gentoo pretty well and may know that he doesn't need sandbox. Once for fun I build a gentoo system in VirtualBox and left sandbox

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 15:09 on Monday 25 October 2010, Bill Longman did opine thusly: On 10/25/2010 01:24 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 04:36 on Monday 25 October 2010, Dale did opine thusly: Then again, Alan knows Gentoo pretty well and may know

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-25 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: Apparently, though unproven, at 02:26 on Monday 25 October 2010, Allan Gottlieb did opine thusly: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you :-) Or in this case, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-25 Thread Yohan Pereira
On Monday 25 October 2010 9:50:30 pm Allan Gottlieb wrote: Yes? yes -- - Yohan Pereira.

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 13:50 on Saturday 23 October 2010, daid kahl did opine thusly: Don't worry about it. I'm not sure if portage-2.1.9.20 will deal with this automagically (I *think* it does these days and 2.2 definitely does) but if not just emerge -C shadow ; emerge -1

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-24 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you :-) Or in this case, it doesn't mean it's not justified. I now have buildpkg enabled for @system - everything else I can re-run emerge to fix. Does this mean for portage

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-24 Thread Dale
Allan Gottlieb wrote: Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you :-) Or in this case, it doesn't mean it's not justified. I now have buildpkg enabled for @system - everything else I can re-run emerge to fix.

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 05:13 on Saturday 23 October 2010, Allan Gottlieb did opine thusly: Now I have masked mesa-7.8.2 downgrading to 7.7.1, which necessitated a downgrade of xorg-server to 1.7.7-r1 (latest stable), which necessitated a downgrade of xinit to 1.2.1. Thus my

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-23 Thread daid kahl
Don't worry about it. I'm not sure if portage-2.1.9.20 will deal with this automagically (I *think* it does these days and 2.2 definitely does) but if not just emerge -C shadow ; emerge -1 shadow then emerge -avuND world. No good technical reason for doing shadow first apart from getting

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-23 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: Apparently, though unproven, at 05:13 on Saturday 23 October 2010, Allan Gottlieb did opine thusly: Now I have masked mesa-7.8.2 downgrading to 7.7.1, which necessitated a downgrade of xorg-server to 1.7.7-r1 (latest stable), which necessitated

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-23 Thread Allan Gottlieb
daid kahl daid...@gmail.com writes: Don't worry about it. I'm not sure if portage-2.1.9.20 will deal with this automagically (I *think* it does these days and 2.2 definitely does) but if not just emerge -C shadow ; emerge -1 shadow then emerge -avuND world. No good technical reason for

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-22 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:06:25 +0300, Timur Aydin wrote: I am using the ~x86 (testing) version of gentoo linux. After recent updates, my X windows became extremely sluggish and I found out that the problem is related to a new version of mesa (7.8.2

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:11 on Friday 22 October 2010, Allan Gottlieb did opine thusly: [snip] package.mask is the right place, but you should add the specific version. Then the system will only upgrade when a newer (hopefully fixed) version arrives. =media-libs/mesa-7.8.2

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-22 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: Apparently, though unproven, at 16:11 on Friday 22 October 2010, Allan Gottlieb did opine thusly: [snip] Perhaps I should be downgrading xorg-server as well. Masking mesa-7.8.2 means (per the ebuilds) you will have to drop back to

[gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-18 Thread Timur Aydin
Hi, I am using the ~x86 (testing) version of gentoo linux. After recent updates, my X windows became extremely sluggish and I found out that the problem is related to a new version of mesa (7.8.2 specifically). So I downgraded to version 7.7.1 and my desktop works great again. Now I want to

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-18 Thread KH
Am 18.10.2010 12:06, schrieb Timur Aydin: Hi, I am using the ~x86 (testing) version of gentoo linux. After recent updates, my X windows became extremely sluggish and I found out that the problem is related to a new version of mesa (7.8.2 specifically). So I downgraded to version 7.7.1 and

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:06:25 +0300, Timur Aydin wrote: I am using the ~x86 (testing) version of gentoo linux. After recent updates, my X windows became extremely sluggish and I found out that the problem is related to a new version of mesa (7.8.2 specifically). So I downgraded to version