At Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:00:48 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do you guys do when you want to try the masked version of a > package to fix a problem you're having with the stable version, but > you don't want to follow the ~x86 version indefinitely? I've just > been adding the package to package.keywords, but that obviously > follows the masked version until you remember to remove the entry. Is > there a better solution?
Let assume the package is gnumeric version 1.6.3 Then put the following line into /etc/portage/package.keywords ~app-office/gnumeric-1.6.3 This way you will get -1.6.3 and, if there is a GENTOO version bump, to ~app-office/gnumeric-1.6.3-r1, you will get that as well even if it is keyword masked (i.e. is ~x86). But you will *not* get -1.6.4 if it is ~x86 so you will in good time return to a stable version. allan gottlieb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
