On Monday 24 November 2003 03:15, Renat Golubchyk wrote:
> 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.
Yep, yep. I've got to get out of the habit of making assumptions.
Jason
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