On Sunday 13 July 2003 07:15, Jonathan Nichols wrote: > Greets, all..this is probably a *really* easy question, but I'm drawing > blanks even after reading manpages & searching forums.... <SNIP> > > Wow, Apache 2.x is now unmasked. Cool! But, I don't want it yet. I'm > quite happy with 1.3.27 right now. > > Is there an easy way to just skip Apache 2.x and emerge everything else? > > Thanks! :) > > -Jonathan
Not sure if this will help, but it was what has finally stopped me from pulling my hair out with every sync. I just want to keep my Gimp-1.3.16 and not have it downgraded with every sync and emerge world. Anyway... Create two files: /etc/portage/profiles/package.mask /etc/portage/package.unmask The above are not mistakes... it seems like they have decided to put these into two separate directories (strange as that is.) In these you will then need to add the files that you either want to unmask (in my case ">=media-gfx/gimp-1.3.5") or that you want to mask (in your case ">=net-www/apache-2.0"). It is just like /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask in layout. The only difference is that it isn't overwritten with each sync and it is completely controlled by you. Well I hope that helps someone out there :) Justin T -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
