On 12/19/2009 10:27 AM, Dale wrote:
Michael P. Soulier wrote:
If I want to freeze my nvidia-drivers because any upgrade will
abandon my
hardware, masking out newer versions doesn't seem to be enough as it
will also
offer to downgrade once that version is no longer in the portage tree.
Is it simpler to just remove nvidia-drivers from the world file?
Thanks,
Mike
I added this to the package.mask file:
>x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.20
That froze mine at that version. Of course, keep in mind if say
173.14.22 comes out, it won't upgrade then either. If you upgrade
your kernel later on and it requires a newer nvidia driver, you will
have to edit that line.
I'm sure some other guru will have a better way tho. ;-)
My package mask file reads
>=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-97.00
Because I have a GEForce 3 from goodness knows when and need 96.x. When
something had ABI updates and the video driver was part of them, the
driver was updated to the new version becuase portage got the latest
96.x drivers, which were not masked.
For you, I would recommend
>=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-174.00
Because that will get 173.14.22 if it comes out.
Marcus
