On 28 Jan 2009, at 15:33, Miernik wrote:
I am doing a 'emerge -uD' but one of the packages the version
currently
in portage doesn't compile, so I want to keep my current version, and
prevent emerge from trying to update it. How can I put a package on
hold
(like in Debian)?
I tried inserting:
=x11-wm/awesome-3.1-r1 ~amd64
in /etc/portage/package.keywords
but 'emerge -uD world' still tries to build x11-wm/awesome-3.1.1
which fails, so the whole process is stopped.
I think you need to use /etc/portage/package.mask instead.
Stroller.
