OK, I did put my php version in the /etc/portage/package.mask, but it
still wants to install a new major version -- curiously it says ebuild
-ns rather than just -n or -u. I put the following line in there
=dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r8
which is my current version of php and emerge said
[ebuild NS ] dev-lang/php-5.1.6-r6 USE="berkdb cli crypt gdbm
iconv ipv6 ldap ncurses nls pcre readline reflection session spell spl
ssl truetype unicode xml zlib -adabas -apache -apache2 -bcmath
-birdstep -bzip2 -calendar -cdb -cgi -cjk -concurrentmodphp -ctype
-curl -curlwrappers -db2 -dbase -dbmaker -debug -discard-path -doc
-empress -empress-bcs -esoob -exif -fastbuild -fdftk -filepro
-firebird -flatfile -force-cgi-redirect -frontbase -ftp -gd
-gd-external -gmp -hardenedphp -hash -hyperwave-api -imap -informix
-inifile -interbase -iodbc -java-external -kerberos -libedit -mcve
-memlimit -mhash -ming -msql -mssql -mysql -mysqli -oci8
-oci8-instant-client -odbc -pcntl -pdo -pdo-external -pic -posix
-postgres -qdbm -recode -sapdb -sasl -sharedext -sharedmem -simplexml
-snmp -soap -sockets -solid -sqlite -sybase -sybase-ct -sysvipc
-threads -tidy -tokenizer -vm-goto -vm-switch -wddx -xmlreader -xmlrpc
-xmlwriter -xpm -xsl -yaz -zip"
on Thursday 01/11/2007 Hans-Werner Hilse([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:50:31 -0500 John Covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi. I just did emerge --pretend --update --deep world, but there is a
> > package which I don't want to have emerge update automatically -- how
> > do I accomplish this?
>
> You can mask it in /etc/portage/package.mask, for the syntax have a
> look at "man 5 portage". For your case, it's basically a line like
>
> >pkg-category/package-0.0.1
>
> assuming you want to keep 0.0.1.
>
>
> -hwh
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