On 6/27/06, Roy Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Have you tried the suggestion outlined at:Howdy,
I'm curious if there is a way to conditionally package mask.
Let me give todays example.
Running ~x86.
gimp-2.3.9 is installed.
gimp-perl-2.2_pre1 has this RDEPEND =media-gfx/gimp-2.2*
So naturally wants to downgrade gimp to 2.2.11-r1.
What would be nice is to be able to mask:
>=gimp-2.3 if =gimp-perl-2.2_pre1
That would then downgrade gimp to 2.2 and leave it there
until the next version of gimp-perl is available.
As it is, all I can see to do to prevent upgrade/downgrade
cycling of gimp is to package mask >=gimp-2.3 and hopefully
remember to unmask it when the next release of gimp-perl
is available.
It just feels like there ought to be a better way...
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=3
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The package.mask file
When you don't want Portage to take a certain package or a specific version of a package into account you can mask it yourself by adding an appropriate line to /etc/portage/package.mask.
For instance, if you don't want Portage to install newer kernel sources than gentoo-sources-2.6.8.1, you add the following line to package.mask:
Code Listing 5: /etc/portage/package.mask example |
>sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.8.1 |
Just wondering...
-Hani
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