On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > > The solution for your stated preference is to unmask the packages' > keyword in /etc/portage/package.keywords, and mask all versions of the > package above the one you have now, so that they do not appear if an > update occurs and you do not want to update to a further unstable version: > > #echo 'media-video/nvidia-kernel ~x86' >>/etc/portage/package.keywords > #echo 'media-video/nvidia-glx ~x86' >>/etc/portage/package.keywords > #echo '>media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7676' >>/etc/portage/package.mask > #echo '>media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.7676-r1' >>/etc/portage/package.mask > > You would of course have to keep an eye on the Portage tree so you would > know when to remove the masks and unmask entries, but you could get > through your daily life without having to re-emerge everything all the time. > OK, will do that. I don't do much emerge world, I usually just "-p"-it and then emerge each package, that's why I didn't think of that.
Thank you (and to Christoph too). Jorge -- [email protected] mailing list
