Thanks, I should have read the Portage Manual more closely.

In the world file you can pin a package to a certain level by editing as
such:-

app-office/gnucash becomes for example...
=app-office/gnucash-1.8.2

then emerge -up world did not show gnucash going back to older version.

On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 10:37, Brad Beveridge wrote:
> Personally, I run stable packages (ie, not ACCEPT_KEYWORDS) when-ever I can.  If I 
> do need an unstable package, I usually "ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge .."
> If you want particular packages to not get changed by emerge -u world, you can 
> either remove them from the /var/cache/edb/world file or pin them to a specific 
> version.  I don't know if you can pin unstable versions though :)
> 
> Personally, if I've installed an unstable package I remove it from my world file & 
> manage it in a more manual way - just the price you need to pay :)
> 
> Brad
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 2 April 2003 10:30 a.m.
> > To: Linux Users Group (E-mail)
> > Subject: Gentoo package upgrade question
> > 
> > 
> > Gentoo users:
> > 
> > I recently commented out the ACCEPT KEYWORDS line from 
> > /etc/make.conf to get
> > latest versions of some programmes - Gnucash in particular.
> > 
> > Today when I ran
> > emerge rsync && emerge -up world
> > 
> > it wanted to go back to earlier versions of some packages
> > 
> > What do you recommend for the ACCEPT KEYWORDS line?
> > 
> > Do you think I should leave it uncommented permanently or what?
> > 
> > Robert
> > 
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Robert Fisher
www.fisherfamily.orcon.net.nz

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