Jorge Almeida wrote on 03/25/06 11:16: > On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Dave Jones wrote: >> Jorge Almeida wrote on 03/25/06 10:00: >>> $ cat /etc/portage/package.mask >>> >media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7676 >>> >media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.7676-r1
>> nvidia-kernel-1.0.8178-r3 is the current ~x86 version, and works fine >> with gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r1. >> Try removing the specific version numbers from your package.mask to get >> the latest version. > I did what you say and it really wants to emerge the new versions (only > did it with --pretend yet). But I still don't understand: what's the > meaning of ">" in the beginning of each line in > /etc/portage/package.mask? I thought it means that the version should be > 1.0.7676 or _newer_? Am I wrong? With the > you're masking out *all* versions *higher* that 1.0.7676-r1, which is probably not what you want. If you want to mask out a specific version, do that with an = in front of the version. Dave -- [email protected] mailing list
