Hi Marius,

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 03:16:32 +0200
Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 07/30/03  Jonathan Kelly wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I was wondering, is there a way of nailing particular versions on my
> > system(s), sort of like a local /etc/make.profile/packages, that won't
> > get overwritten everytime I "emerge sync" ... I was guessing I could
> > just copy/usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4 somewhere and point
> > /etc/make.profile at that, but then I'd have to update that manually.
> > I guess I'm hoping there's some sort of overlay feature in portage for
> > the_contents_ packages file.
> 
> Not that, but you can mask versions in /etc/portage/package.mask, that
> is the equivalent to /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask.

Well, I guess that was exactly what I was looking for. Hmm, just thought
... what if the version I peg my system to is not considered significant,
and is deleted from the portage tree?

cheers
Jonathan.

> 
> Marius
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