> > Hello, I've purchased vmware workstation 4.5 and gentoo wants to > > upgrade it to 5.0. If I go ahead with that emerge will I be able to > > use the upgraded product with my 4.5 license? > > No, unless you are entitled to a free 4.x to 5.x upgrade, VMWare > sometimes do this when you buy the old version just before the new one is > released. > > If not, you'll need to add ">app-emulation/vmware-workstation-5.0" > to /etc/portage/package.mask to stop portage trying to upgrade. > > 5.0 is rather nice, and the upgrade fee from 4.5 is not that great.
Ok, masked. Thanks. - Grant -- [email protected] mailing list
