On Wednesday 11 March 2009 22:40:54 Michael Higgins wrote: > Don't know the proper term, but I want to stop version updates for a while, > yet allow package-rN updates...
This doesn't seem to be a built-in feature of portage after a quick scan of the man pages. But I can think of a method to do it the long way round: The atom syntax you want is <package>~ which means any -rN version (including -r0) of the base version. You could grab a complete list of your system and world (emerge -et), mangle it into shape with grep, sed and awk and redirect the whole lot to a package.mask file in a format something like this: >app-1.1.0~ > > I spent most of the last couple of days killing two bugs that were a > serious drag on my laptop, involving kacpid hogging the CPU on a resume, or > bay swap, and gnome panel freezing on > 7 open windows (a real deal > killer). I'd like to spend a few months just using it now that it all > works... > > So with the latest kernel in the tree unmasked (kacpid bug fix) and a > couple of patches and ebuilds in my overlay for a pair of unmasked x11 and > gnome packages, what is the method to keep this 'world' in a 'set' and > 'forgotten' state? '-) > > Cheers, -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
