On Sun, Mar 18 2012, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:14:48 -0700 > Allan Gottlieb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I will update to the new world order, but would very much prefer to >> postpone that for a few weeks. Is it enough to put >> >> >sys-fs/udev-171-r5 >> >> in /etc/portage/package.mask ? > >>=sys-fs/udev-181 > > would be better. Rather mask the first version that causes issues and > all subsequent versions. With your suggestions, there may be > future updates between 171 and 181 (without initrd issues) that you > want, but you can't use them as you masked them.
Done, thanks. Thank you volker as well. allan

