Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to instruct emerge to leave certain stuff alone
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 04:39:12 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > > According to the portage man-page you must include the version of > > the package > > Yes I saw that too, But that wasn't necessary before. So maybe new? > But it also raises another question. The emacs I wanted to keep is an > older version than the newest in portage. So do I enter that version? Put the version you have installed in package.provided and ">category/package-version" in /etc/portage/package.mask. This will tell portage that you have the version you have installed, but not to try to update to a newer version. If you ever try to install a package that requires a later version of emacs than you have, you'll get an error and can deal with it manually, whereas putting later versions in package.provided means you'll see no error until the dependent package breaks. -- Neil Bothwick I do not like this dumb machine I really ought to sell it. It never does just what I want But only what I tell it. pgpSF4R32Hkr7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to instruct emerge to leave certain stuff alone
On Monday 29 August 2005 09:53, Nagatoro wrote: > In my mind that means just that; as long as someother package doesn't > _need_ a newer version portage will ignore all versions of the > provided package. Yup, so you would only need to change the version of the package in packages.provided to a newer one only if you see it pulled as a dependency. Just enter the latest version available in portage and you should be ok for a long time :) -- Cheers, Alex. pgpIO3m3MtbGm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to instruct emerge to leave certain stuff alone
Harry Putnam wrote: Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Yes I saw that too, But that wasn't necessary before. So maybe new? But it also raises another question. The emacs I wanted to keep is an older version than the newest in portage. So do I enter that version? That is, will portage just ignore the fact that there is a newer version. Or does it mean I need to put the newest version number in /etc/portage/profile/package.provided even though that isn't what I have? From Harry Putnam's post: Portage will not attempt to update a package that is listed here unless another package explicitly requires a version that is newer than what has been listed. In my mind that means just that; as long as someother package doesn't _need_ a newer version portage will ignore all versions of the provided package. -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: How to instruct emerge to leave certain stuff alone
Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday 29 August 2005 02:18, Harry Putnam wrote: >> It contained >> dev-util/cvs >> app-editors/emacs-cvs > > According to the portage man-page you must include the version of > the package Yes I saw that too, But that wasn't necessary before. So maybe new? But it also raises another question. The emacs I wanted to keep is an older version than the newest in portage. So do I enter that version? That is, will portage just ignore the fact that there is a newer version. Or does it mean I need to put the newest version number in /etc/portage/profile/package.provided even though that isn't what I have? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
