On Wed, Oct 17 2012, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:18:50 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > >> A few months ago a procedure was given for converting from testing to >> stable (e.g. ~amd64-->~amd) by essentially waiting for stable to catch >> up. >> >> I believe the basic idea was to unmask a bunch of packages and then as >> stable catches up, remove the unmasks. I also believe there was some >> automated way to generate the unmasks and maybe a way to see when each >> is not needed. >> >> Can someone repost this msg? >> I foolishly did not save it and now want to convert a system to stable >> and can afford to do so slowly. > > You can generate the list with > > qlist -ICv | sed -e 's/^/~/' -e 's/-r[1-9]$//' >>/etc/portage/package.mask/goingstable > > This allows revision updates, which is useful as they usually contain bug > or security fixes, but doesn't allow any higher versions. > > Occasionally running eix-test-obsolete will let you know which entries > have become redundant because stable has caught up with them.
Thanks you both (I incorporated the .use-->.mask) change). allan
