Re: [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?

2009-01-28 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:48:37 -0500, Joshua Murphy wrote: > >> > =x11-wm/awesome-3.1-r1 ~amd64 >> > >> > in /etc/portage/package.keywords >> > >> > but 'emerge -uD world' still tries to build x11-wm/awesome-3.1.1 >> > which fails, so the whole

Re: [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?

2009-01-28 Thread Man Shankar
On 20:41 Wed 28 Jan , momesso.and...@gmail.com wrote: > Sorry for topposting (BlackBerry behavior). > > I think that if emerge =x11-wm/awesome-3.1.1 fails, you should file a bug > before masking it. > > > Momesso Andrea > > +1 FWIW, have been using that

Re: [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?

2009-01-28 Thread momesso . andrea
-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)? On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:48:37 -0500, Joshua Murphy wrote: > > =x11-wm/awesome-3.1-r1 ~amd64 > > > > in /etc/portage/package.keywords > > > > but 'emerge -uD wo

Re: [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?

2009-01-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:48:37 -0500, Joshua Murphy wrote: > > =x11-wm/awesome-3.1-r1 ~amd64 > > > > in /etc/portage/package.keywords > > > > but 'emerge -uD world' still tries to build x11-wm/awesome-3.1.1 > > which fails, so the whole process is stopped. > > echo \>x11-wm/awesome-3.1-r1 >> /etc

Re: [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?

2009-01-28 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Miernik wrote: > I am doing a 'emerge -uD' but one of the packages the version currently > in portage doesn't compile, so I want to keep my current version, and > prevent emerge from trying to update it. How can I put a package on hold > (like in Debian)? > > I tr

Re: [gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?

2009-01-28 Thread Stroller
On 28 Jan 2009, at 15:33, Miernik wrote: I am doing a 'emerge -uD' but one of the packages the version currently in portage doesn't compile, so I want to keep my current version, and prevent emerge from trying to update it. How can I put a package on hold (like in Debian)? I tried inserti

[gentoo-user] how to hold a package at a specific version (so emerge -uD world doesn't change it)?

2009-01-28 Thread Miernik
I am doing a 'emerge -uD' but one of the packages the version currently in portage doesn't compile, so I want to keep my current version, and prevent emerge from trying to update it. How can I put a package on hold (like in Debian)? I tried inserting: =x11-wm/awesome-3.1-r1 ~amd64 in /etc/portag