On Saturday 19 December 2009 17:18:30 Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 10:12 -0500, 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? > > Create an local overlay. Put the ebuild in there.
I'd also rename the ebuild to something like my-nvidia-drivers That way it becomes a completely new app from portage's point of view and therefore not subject to updated nvidia-drivers in portage which you might forget to mask -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
