On Thursday 06 April 2006 23:45, Daevid Vincent wrote: > How do I prevent my server from upgrading to Xorg 7.0 modular > (although ideally, I would like to upgrade any 6.x regular Xorg versions > that come along). [SNIP] > server portage # cat /etc/portage/package.mask > =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 > > But when I do an "emerge -Davu world" it still tries to pull xorg > dependencies: > > !!!(dependency required by "x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0-r1" [ebuild]) > > I *DO* have this in my package.keywords file, along with a bunch of other > ones for KDE/Gnome/etc: > > x11-base/xorg-x11 ~x86 > > But shouldn't the 'mask' file have priority?
You really seem to have misunderstood the concept of masked packages. Richard and Neil have told you what to do but I would advise you to read the following: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=1#doc_chap4 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=3 -- Bo Andresen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
