On Wednesday 13 December 2006 22:59, Travis Osterman wrote: > I needed to unmask ivtv by placing it in my > /etc/portage/package.keywords as "media-tv/ivtv". Now I'd like to > have my system not ask me to ever upgrade it again until the newer > version is required as a dependency of some other program.
Why? > I thought that putting "=media-tv/ivtv-0.9.0" (where 0.9.0 is my > current version) in /etc/portage/package.mask would be the solution, > but when I "emerge ivtv -pv" it wants to upgrade to "0.9.1". You should package.mask the versions you don't want. Not the version you do want. So ">=media-tv/ivtv-0.9.1" seems to be what you're looking for. Or ">media-tv/ivtv-0.9.0"... > I commented out the line in package.keywords thinking maybe if it was > already installed and masked that portage would ignore it. The result > of this was portage wanted to downgrade to the more 'stable' 0.8.x - > which is also not the desired result. Of course you can also just put "=media-tv/ivtv-0.9.0" in package.keywords. That will work until the 0.9 branch gets stabilised. Of course "~media-tv/ivtv-0.9.0" may be preferred since you may want bugfixes like media-tv/ivtv-0.9.0-r1, media-tv/ivtv-0.9.0-r2 etc. if such ever gets realeased in the tree... > Is there a way to not upgrade to 0.9.1 without emerge'ing ivtv with > the '-1' option or using package.provided (as it seems to circumvent > portage's dependency checking)? Thanks. Using package.provided is a *really* bad idea! It will bite you eventually... This is all documented in `man portage` and the handbook... -- Bo Andresen
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