On 2003-12-08, rd wrote: > To prevent emerge world from upgrading... edit /etc/portage/package.mask > and put ">dev-perl/Extutils-MakeMaker-6.05-r6" in it. This will mask > anything newer until YOU remove this entry. > Ah, wonderful. Thank you. But /etc/portage/package.mask doesn't seem to exist here! There isn't even a /etc/portage directory here. But /usr/portage/profiles/portage.mask does exist, and it says I'm welcome to add an entry to it. So, which is the right *correct* method to do this and where do I find docs on this?
The only thing I have found this: <http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=33534>. Cheers, /H� -- /// Helgi �rn Helgason, Registered GNU/Linux User: #189958 \\\ \\\ ~~ Gentoo 1.4 ~ Kernel 2.4.20-gentoo-r9 ~ KDE 3.1.4 ~~ ///
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