Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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, >> > >
Could he just not sync and call it a day? I suspect this is going to bite him one day tho. We know Gentoo likes to be updated fairly regular. I been around Gentoo for years and I don't think I would want to do this. I'm not sure how much experience the OP has tho. I do understand that getting something stable and working then wanting to keep it that way. I'm just wondering what his mileage may be in the long run. Dale :-) :-)
