On Tuesday 09 December 2003 07:17, Helgi �rn Helgason wrote: > 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� Hi, Some time ago there was a simiral message on the list, so I also checked and saw there is no such thing. But looking in the in /usr/portage/profile/portage.mask saw that it seems to hold the packages masked by devs and maybe later updated by emerge sync. So made a portage directory in /etc, in it ceated portage.mask and portage.unmask and in the end put some stuff in it. Checked - it worked. I think this a way so everybody could customize there's masked packages. Not sure if all this is correct. Rumen.
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