Re: [gentoo-user] package.mask and my thick skull

2006-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

[gentoo-user] package.mask and my thick skull

2006-05-15 Thread John J. Foster
Good afternoon, This has been discussed over and over in this list, but I am unable to find any references that make sense to me. Could someone please explain the different ways that you can specify an atom in package.mask? I currently have app-office/openoffice ~x86# in package.keywords

Re: [gentoo-user] package.mask and my thick skull

2006-05-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] package.mask and my thick skull

2006-05-15 Thread John J. Foster
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

Re: [gentoo-user] package.mask and my thick skull

2006-05-15 Thread Teresa and Dale
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