[gentoo-user] keeping an installed version

2009-03-19 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hi, I'm trying to understand package masking. If I want to keep a version of a package, if I mask-out anything higher than the current version then I figured that would accomplish the task. Currently I have media-video/nvidia-settings-169.07 If I want to keep this, I thought I could add this to

Re: [gentoo-user] keeping an installed version

2009-03-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:48:41 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: [ebuild UD] media-video/nvidia-settings-1.0.20070621 [169.07] I don't understand why it wants to downgrade the package from 169.07. I'm obviously missing something. Because 169.07 is no longer in portage, you've masked out

Re: [gentoo-user] keeping an installed version

2009-03-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 19 March 2009 23:48:41 Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hi, I'm trying to understand package masking. If I want to keep a version of a package, if I mask-out anything higher than the current version then I figured that would accomplish the task. Currently I have