[gentoo-user] Re: Newbie question : specific software version no more available

2006-03-26 Thread Simon Kellett
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can, by adding ">cate-gory/package-version" to > /etc/portage/package.mask. As long as the package is installed, a copy > of the ebuild will stay in /var/db/pkg. Portage never forces you to > upgrade anything. OK: thanks I did not know this. (I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Newbie question : specific software version no more available

2006-03-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 20:58:18 +0100, Simon Kellett wrote: > This is one of the (few) things I do not like about Gentoo - sort of > *forced* upgrades. There are manual workarounds, but I think it would be > very friendly if I could flag packages as not-to-upgrade: the ebuild > (and dependencies) wou

[gentoo-user] Re: Newbie question : specific software version no more available

2006-03-24 Thread Simon Kellett
sebastien Pastor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When i got all those scripts stabilized, i really wanted to keep > exactly same version of binaries. After installing a new server, i got > the surprise not being able to use ecasound-2.3.3, the only version > available is the 2.4.3. This is one of t