Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. schreef: > On Saturday 03 December 2005 12:46 pm, Holly Bostick > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> or you could unmask the specific version using >> >> echo "=dev-dv/mysql-4.0.26 ~x86" >>/etc/portage/package.keywords >> >> but be warned that this will not enable you to upgrade if 4.0.26 is >> revised (4.0.26-r1) or upgraded (4.0.27), as those will still be >> masked by the ~arch keword, as opposed to the previous command, >> which unmasks all future unstable versions below 4.1.14. > > > You probably already know this holly, but you can add * to the end of > your atom there to accept all version number changes smaller than > the ones you've specified.
Actually, no, I didn't know that (I just found out that you can keyword specific versions only last week, by experimentation. Yeah, I probably should read more docs :-) ). So thanks for the further tip -- I learn something new every day around here. :-D Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
