how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?
On 20:41 Wed 28 Jan , momesso.andrea@gmail.com wrote:
> Sorry for topposting (BlackBerry behavior).
>
> I think that if emerge =x11-wm/awesome-3.1.1 fails, you should file a bug before masking it.
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> Momesso Andrea
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+1
FWIW, have been using that version for about 10 days. Works great here.
What is the error you get?
> > > =x11-wm/awesome-3.1-r1 ~amd64
> > >
> > > in /etc/portage/package.keywords
> > >
> > > but 'emerge -uD world' still tries to build x11-wm/awesome-3.1.1
> > > which fails, so the whole process is stopped.
Normally, that works unless the greater version is stable or you have
accepted keyword for the greater version in some other place.
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Man Shankar <man.ee.gen(at)gmail.com>