On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > > The moral is always look for portage trying to downgrade packages and add > the appropriate keyword entries when using this approach. >
The only issue with this is that you never get back to stable that way. What I usually do if I am tracking testing on a package and want to get back to stable is one of two things: 1. Mask all versions less than what I have. Then I won't get downgraded. 2. Keyword all versions less than the next big release. Then I'll keep getting bugfixes in ~arch but won't get promoted to the next big release, and hopefully at that point stable catches up. In general moving from testing to stable is a bit of a pain though - I've never actually done it for a whole system. It is enough of a pain when you get ahead on one package and want to drop back. Rich
