Sorry for topposting (BlackBerry behavior). I think that if emerge =x11-wm/awesome-3.1.1 fails, you should file a bug before masking it.
================ Momesso Andrea ================ -----Original Message----- From: Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:10:05 To: <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)? On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:48:37 -0500, Joshua Murphy wrote: > > =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. > > echo \>x11-wm/awesome-3.1-r1 >> /etc/portage/package.mask > # and to prevent downgrades That blocks all future updates, not just the broken one. -- Neil Bothwick If there is light at the end of the tunnel...order more tunnel.
