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?
Thanks,
Mike
I added this to the package.mask file:
>x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.20
That froze mine at that version. Of course, keep in mind if say
173.14.22 comes out, it won't upgrade then either. If you upgrade your
kernel later on and it requires a newer nvidia driver, you will have to
edit that line.
I'm sure some other guru will have a better way tho. ;-)
Dale
;-) :-)
