Martins Steinbergs schreef: > hi, > > im wondering how to avoid packages from upgrade or downgrade, at last found > that ati-drivers-8.14.13 compile with kernel vanilla 2.6.11.11 and it would > be good that this pair stays as is while --update world. > > Martins
Well, the ATI drivers won't be updated until August (they have a two-month release cycle), so no need to worry about an update showing up for those for a while. As for the kernel, it's not going to be 'updated' until you yourself update it-- since all that would be installed is the uncompiled source. Even your symlink won't change from pointing at the currently-installed kernel to the new source if you don't have the 'symlink' keyword set. But still, it's a pain having uncompiled kernel source that you don't want/need hanging around, and it takes a longish time to download, so you might as well mask it: echo '>sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.11.11' >>/etc/portage/package.mask should do it. The issue here is that you won't see any updates unless you specifically look for them on packages.gentoo.org, or using esync-- all other 'normal' ways of knowing that an installed package was updated will now for this package be blocked. So when 2.6.12 goes from testing to stable, you won't see that. If you mask the ati-driver as well, you also won't see it if they release an interim update with the necessary patches against 2.6.12 (apparently the current release is almost ready to support 2.6.12, but the kernel was not released yet at the time of their release-- or was released too close to ATI's release for them to update their release-- and ATI has a policy of not supporting -rc or unreleased/unstable kernels. But apparently it would be "but a moment's work" on ATI's part to support 2.6.12, if they didn't in fact get the support included at the last minute before they released 8.14.13, which was the plan, as far as I heard on the Rage3D forums from mtippett, who is the project leader for the ATI Linux drivers). So it might be worth it to try compiling 8.14.13 against 2.6.12; it might very well work, and then you could mask kernel updates with more confidence. Hope this helps, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
