On Wednesday 02 February 2005 03:01 am, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> I read about using package.mask and thus I placed
>
> >=www-proxy/squid-2.5.7-r2
>
> Doing that and doing an emerge -uDpv world, I see that instead of
> wanting to upgrade, it now wants to downgrade it.
>
> How do I tell it that I don't want it upgraded at all??

(I assuming you have www-proxy-squid-2.5.7-r2 installed)

package.mask lists the packages you don't want installed.
You've just told it you don't wnat any version greater than *or equal to* 
2.5.7-r2 or www-proxy/squid installed.  Instead, you probably want to drop 
your '=' from the line so that you drop the "or equal to" semantics.

Of course, that won't affect a downgrade path (if some piece of software 
needs a lower version, or that ebuild somehow becomes unsuitable), so you 
could also add <www-proxy/squid-2.5.7-r2.

On this note, can a dev tell me if the world file can contain full atoms 
like www-proxy/squid-2.5.7-r2 (ala the system file(s)) or can it only be 
cat-egory/package?

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