Op dinsdag 13 augustus 2013 01:54:00 schreef Andrew Lowe: > On 08/11/13 01:16, Daniel Frey wrote: > > On 08/10/2013 09:27 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> As per usual an update of Libre Office is failing and causing all > >> sorts of build troubles. I have an install, the previous version, of > >> Libre Office working so how do I stop portage from trying to update to > >> the latest. > >> > >> > >> [ebuild UD ] app-office/libreoffice-4.0.4.2 [4.1.0.1] > >> > >> What do I have to fiddle so that portage won't want to upgrade > >> libreoffice? This is stopping my "-NuD world" from completing so I need > >> to suppress libreoffice for the time being and come back to it later. > >> > >> Any thoughts, greatly appreciated, > >> > >> Andrew > >> > > > > You can use the --exclude parameter (I think?) and it will ignore it for > > the one command, then after everything is updated you can solve it > > further. Try: > > > > emerge --exclude app-office/libreoffice -NuD world > > > > This is not a permanent change but it will allow you to complete your > > update, then you can set the masking afterwards. > > > > Dan > > > > > It worked. Thanks. Now to get this all sorted out and Libre Office to > build at leisure. > > Andrew > FWIW, I had initially unmasked a bunch of stuff (suggested by portage) to get the first 4.x version of LO to compile. Upgrading to 4.0.4.2 only worked after I had upgraded boost and boost-build from 1.52 to 1.53. Portage had nothing to say about it, the build just failed with some weird boost errors.
Cheers Paul
