That's the way I did it before, you know... but it really comes to be a pain in the ass when you want to test some new supercool releases with tons of dependencies, such as kde-4 and so on.
However that's some neat tip, I haven't though on the possibility of leaving just package.keywords, I'm giving it a try just right now! Thanks a lot! On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 14 March 2008, Gustavo Campos wrote: > > Hi there. > > > > I have a "stable" system (I don't have ~x86 set), but I like to have > > the latest versions of some specific software (kde, gnome, amarok, > > alsa, pulseaudio, wine and so on). To achieve that, I've been using > > autounmask with the parameter -n. When I have a package I want to > > keep in the latest version, I just autounmask -n package, so all the > > dependencies are unmasked and no version number is appended. > > > > That works fine, but I like to have the latest released versions, > > which means I usually want to get away from the *9999 ebuilds. The > > trouble is, when I use autounmask without version numbers, those 9999 > > packages usually are choosen by portage, for being the effective > > latest ones. > > > > I would like to know if there is a way for me to unmask > > (automatically if possible) all versions BUT the 9999 ones, so I have > > the latest releases but the less CVS/Beta packages as possible. > > I find autounmask does way too much for me, and does it blindly just > like a dumb computer should. so I do it manually. However, you are > using -n and at the same time trying to use it without -n... > > Trying deleting the autounmask files in /etc/portage/package.unmask/, > that should go a long way to removing the CVS stuff (which is usually > hard masked) leaving just package.keywords. You might have to manually > resolve some conflicts now and then though - small price > > > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Gustavo Campos Ciência da Computação / Computer Science - UFMG -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
