-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jesse Adelman wrote: > Hi, all. I want to do an "emerge -uDN world", mostly to update Xorg to the > newest > stable version. However, I have one package that I don't want to update, that > being media-tv/mythtv. Now, the version of mythtv (and associated mythtv > plugins) > that I have installed currently has been removed from Portage, so the normal > package.mask changes don't appear to work and only offer a downgrade. I know I > could just do each update individually (and get around this), but I'd like to > stay > lazy and let "emerge -uDN world" just work. ;) > > The nitty gritty: > > I have installed: > > media-tv/mythtv-0.20_p13288 > > Portage has an update: > > media-tv/mythtv-0.20.1_p13344 > > But when I put this into package.mask > >> =media-tv/mythtv-0.20.1_p13344 > > It then wants to downgrade to: > > media-tv/mythtv-0.20_p13110 > > which I don't want.
You have to mask all versions both higher and lower than the version that you want to be locked at: echo ">media-tv/mythtv-0.20_p13288" >> /etc/portage/package.mask echo "<media-tv/mythtv-0.20_p13288" >> /etc/portage/package.mask Zac -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGN4RK/ejvha5XGaMRAoVOAKCZNTiR3v2m28qvZXdOWfuKDS44WwCfbM7W W7zDR2L5aL5lnwkKlYLHTkQ= =GRvP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
