On 12/17/09, Crístian Viana <cristiandei...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi, > > I run "glsa-check -f affected" to update a Gentoo system, but there's one > specific package I can't update, because it's a C library someone is using > and the 'secure' version is causing segmentation fault on her program, so I > added it to packages.mask. but as I run glsa-check in a cron job, if there's > one package it can't emerge, it won't emerge the rest of them (if only I > could add "--keep-going"). > > does anyone have a solution to this? I want to keep running glsa-check to > update my system, but I don't want to update one specific package. > > thanks! > > -- > Crístian Deives dos Santos Viana [aka CD1] > Sent from Campinas, SP, Brazil
I don't know this for sure, but I wonder if putting the package in package.provided would result in what you are looking for? So, unless someone gets a better idea, I'd try to emerge the properly functioning version of the package, and then mark it provided: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=5#doc_chap3 -- Arttu V.
