Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I ask because setting a higher version number might eventually need >> bumping still higher... or if versioning changes somehow will >> `higher' not be noticed. > > If you want to maintain and use old package-1.0.0 by yourself, and there > is already package-2.3 in the portage tree, then you need to mask out > any version greater than your custom ebuild. So, you put this > in /etc/portage/package.mask:
Thanks for the tips on other areas too, but the above tip clears up something I've had wrong for some time. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
