Today portage upgraded ffmpeg from 0.7.8 to 0.10. I do not want to the new version (0.10). I attempted to indicate this to portage, using 'man portage' as a guide, by changing package.mask:
crs-m6600 ~ # cat /etc/portage/package.mask # Avoid dealing with deprecated functions that break SimLib >=media-video/ffmepg-0.10 crs-m6600 ~ # Portage, however, appears unwilling to downgrade me back to 0.7.8: crs-m6600 ~ # emerge -p ffmpeg These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] media-video/ffmpeg-0.10 crs-m6600 ~ # Note: I have tried two additional representations of ffmpeg in /etc/portage/package.mask: >media-video/ffmepg-0.7 >media-video/ffmepg-0.7.8 but still portage will not downgrade me. Q1: Why did none of my three ffmpeg mask attempts cause portage to downgrade me from media-video/ffmpeg-0.10 to media-video/ffmpeg-0.7.8? Q2: What is the proper way to tell portage to not upgrade me past ffmpeg-0.7.8? Q3: What is the proper way to tell portage to downgrade me from ffmpeg-0.10.0 to ffmpeg-0.7.8? FYI: I am trying to avoid ffmpeg-0.10 as it removes a public function I am using elsewhere. Thank you, Chris
