On Sat, 4 Apr 2009 09:54:50 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I'd like a way to completely lock a package to the current running > version, and be able to do something like this: > > emerge --lock <some-package-some-version> > > emerge could then move the ebuild to a local overlay, mask out higher > versions, and remember the original ebuild source (portage > tree|overlay) and keep checking back in for -r updates.
This would be great, but it seems very complex. Portage would also need to do the same for dependencies. Worse, a package could depend on what was the latest version of a package when the ebuild was still maintained, but break with later versions out now. -- Neil Bothwick OPERATOR ERROR: Nyah, Nyah, Nyah, Nyah, Nyah!
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