[gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?

2009-01-28 Thread Miernik
I am doing a 'emerge -uD' but one of the packages the version currently in portage doesn't compile, so I want to keep my current version, and prevent emerge from trying to update it. How can I put a package on hold (like in Debian)? I tried inserting: =x11-wm/awesome-3.1-r1 ~amd64 in

Re: [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?

2009-01-28 Thread Stroller
On 28 Jan 2009, at 15:33, Miernik wrote: I am doing a 'emerge -uD' but one of the packages the version currently in portage doesn't compile, so I want to keep my current version, and prevent emerge from trying to update it. How can I put a package on hold (like in Debian)? I tried

Re: [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?

2009-01-28 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Miernik pub...@public.miernik.name wrote: I am doing a 'emerge -uD' but one of the packages the version currently in portage doesn't compile, so I want to keep my current version, and prevent emerge from trying to update it. How can I put a package on hold

Re: [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?

2009-01-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:48:37 -0500, Joshua Murphy wrote: =x11-wm/awesome-3.1-r1 ~amd64 in /etc/portage/package.keywords but 'emerge -uD world' still tries to build x11-wm/awesome-3.1.1 which fails, so the whole process is stopped. echo \x11-wm/awesome-3.1-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?

2009-01-28 Thread momesso . andrea
Sorry for topposting (BlackBerry behavior). I think that if emerge =x11-wm/awesome-3.1.1 fails, you should file a bug before masking it. Momesso Andrea -Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:10:05 To:

Re: [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?

2009-01-28 Thread Man Shankar
On 20:41 Wed 28 Jan , momesso.and...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for topposting (BlackBerry behavior). I think that if emerge =x11-wm/awesome-3.1.1 fails, you should file a bug before masking it. Momesso Andrea +1 FWIW, have been using that version

Re: [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?

2009-01-28 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:48:37 -0500, Joshua Murphy wrote: =x11-wm/awesome-3.1-r1 ~amd64 in /etc/portage/package.keywords but 'emerge -uD world' still tries to build x11-wm/awesome-3.1.1 which fails, so the whole