On Friday 21 November 2003 03:31, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> On Friday 21 November 2003 05:05, Patrick Marquetecken wrote:
> > Whats the best way to exclude files form a emerge -U world?
> >
> > I don't want to update my nvidea
>
> If you really don't want to, try the following:
> # mkdir /etc/portage
> # echo =media-video/nvidia-<version> > /etc/portage/package.mask
Better do
# echo =media-video/nvidia-<version> >> /etc/portage/package.mask
Notice the ">>" sign. If you use a single ">" then package.mask will be
overwritten if it already exists. The ">>" signs only appends to the file
instead of overwriting it.
Cheers,
Renat
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