[gentoo-user] How can I unmask package and mask just its one version?
Hi, how can I unmask (generally) certain M~ masked package and mask one particular version of that package? I want to use that package, but skip just one x.y.z upgrade, and continue with any future higher upgrades (x.y.z+1). So I entered tree/package in /etc/portage/package.unmask, and tree/package_x.y.z into /etc/portage/package.mask. But this does not work, that x.y.z version still wants to be installed... Jarry -- ___ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted.
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I unmask package and mask just its one version?
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 20:13, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, how can I unmask (generally) certain M~ masked package and mask one particular version of that package? I want to use that package, but skip just one x.y.z upgrade, and continue with any future higher upgrades (x.y.z+1). So I entered tree/package in /etc/portage/package.unmask, and tree/package_x.y.z into /etc/portage/package.mask. But this does not work, that x.y.z version still wants to be installed... Jarry -- ___ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted. # emerge app-portage/autounmask # autounmask category/package-version Watch the output of autounmask, read the written files, you will see how to. -- Fatih
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I unmask package and mask just its one version?
Apparently, though unproven, at 19:13 on Thursday 28 October 2010, Jarry did opine thusly: Hi, how can I unmask (generally) certain M~ masked package and mask one particular version of that package? I want to use that package, but skip just one x.y.z upgrade, and continue with any future higher upgrades (x.y.z+1). So I entered tree/package in /etc/portage/package.unmask, and tree/package_x.y.z into /etc/portage/package.mask. But this does not work, that x.y.z version still wants to be installed... portage is fighting you. unmask has priority over mask, so unmasking everything and masking a specific version will not work - the first rule will prevail. You must come up with some prefix operators for unmask that will exclude the one you want to mask. For example, say you wanted to mask version 4: unmask: cat/package-4 cat/package-4 mask: =cat/package-4 But this is fragile and will break way too often. What if you later also want to mask version 7? portage doesn't give you a boolean AND or any way I know of to specify a range of versions. So you have to keep an eye on it manually, and tweak as necessary. Or you could just list exactly every version for which there's an ebuild and add it to the appropriate package.* file This is a definite shortcoming in portage, it warrants a feature request at b.g.o. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
