On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > 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. >
Ah... I didn't read closely what the reason for wanting to hold at the current version was, in the little time I had at that moment I just threw an answer to the exact question in the title of the mail... "hold a package at a specific version" ... you're right, though, for the given reasons they're likely far better off only blocking the problematic one. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
