[gentoo-user] package.mask syntax

2007-01-29 Thread Martins
Hi, Could you hint me on this, i want to mask whole tree on overlay sabayon like this: kde-base/* kde-misc/* to get every package masked there, even those who probaly will be added later. OK, i know i can remove that overlay but I think i still need it. Martins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] package.mask syntax

2007-01-29 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 29 January 2007 13:04:08 Martins wrote: Could you hint me on this, i want to mask whole tree on overlay sabayon like this: kde-base/* kde-misc/* to get every package masked there, even those who probaly will be added later. OK, i know i can remove that overlay but I think i still

[gentoo-user] package.mask

2007-01-19 Thread Norberto Bensa
Hello list, what does ~ mean here: (example from /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask) ~net-dns/bind-tools-9.3.3 ? Many thanks in advance, Norberto pgp0mwMZNkYZr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] package.mask

2007-01-19 Thread sean
Norberto Bensa wrote: Hello list, what does ~ mean here: (example from /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask) ~net-dns/bind-tools-9.3.3 ? I think it means that the package is still in testing. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] package.mask

2007-01-19 Thread Boris Fersing
2007/1/19, sean [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Norberto Bensa wrote: Hello list, what does ~ mean here: (example from /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask) ~net-dns/bind-tools-9.3.3 ? I think it means that the package is still in testing. No, the ~ before the package name stands for any revision of

[gentoo-user] package.mask

2007-01-19 Thread John covici
on Friday 01/19/2007 Norberto Bensa([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote Hello list, what does ~ mean here: (example from /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask) ~net-dns/bind-tools-9.3.3 Excerpt from man 5 ebuild Now to get even fancier, we provide the ability to define blocking

Re: [gentoo-user] package.mask

2007-01-19 Thread Norberto Bensa
Boris Fersing wrote: Norberto Bensa wrote: what does ~ mean here: (example from /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask) ~net-dns/bind-tools-9.3.3 Here, all the revisions of net-dns/bind-tools-9.3.3 (-r1 , -r2, ...) are masked ! Nice. Thanks Boris! Best regards, Norberto

Re: [gentoo-user] package.mask and my thick skull

2006-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 15 May 2006 16:52:21 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: But why would you want to do this? If a patch level update is released, there may be a good reason. I'd prefer to leave things alone until an update is realsed. Then check the Changelog and mask the specific version if I don't

[gentoo-user] package.mask and my thick skull

2006-05-15 Thread John J. Foster
Good afternoon, This has been discussed over and over in this list, but I am unable to find any references that make sense to me. Could someone please explain the different ways that you can specify an atom in package.mask? I currently have app-office/openoffice ~x86# in package.keywords

Re: [gentoo-user] package.mask and my thick skull

2006-05-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 15 May 2006 12:44:05 -0400, John J. Foster wrote: I currently have app-office/openoffice ~x86# in package.keywords app-office/openoffice-2.0.2-r2 is currently installed I would like to be able to mask all updates until app-office/openoffice-2.0.3 or

Re: [gentoo-user] package.mask and my thick skull

2006-05-15 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 06:14:41PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 15 May 2006 12:44:05 -0400, John J. Foster wrote: I currently have app-office/openoffice ~x86# in package.keywords app-office/openoffice-2.0.2-r2 is currently installed I would like to be able to mask

Re: [gentoo-user] package.mask and my thick skull

2006-05-15 Thread Teresa and Dale
Daniel da Veiga wrote: This should work OK, and the original poster could simply read: man portage And learn all of this and more! I think the original poster has the same problem as me, I just use trial and error and the -p option, a lot sometimes. It took me at least a half dozen

[gentoo-user] package.mask

2006-04-12 Thread Niki Balov
Hi there, i want to ask how to mask versions of glibc above 2.4? I compile my entire system with gcc3.4.5 and glibc 2.4 and i don't want to upgrade them. I added the following lines in package.mask sys-devel/gcc-3.4.5 sys-libs/glibc-2.4 but there is glibc-2.4-r1 and the system wants to upgrade. I

Re: [gentoo-user] package.mask

2006-04-12 Thread Nagatoro
Niki Balov wrote: Hi there, i want to ask how to mask versions of glibc above 2.4? I compile my entire system with gcc3.4.5 and glibc 2.4 and i don't want to upgrade them. I added the following lines in package.mask sys-devel/gcc-3.4.5 sys-libs/glibc-2.4 sys-devel/gcc-3.4.5 sys-libs/glibc-2.4

Re: [gentoo-user] package.mask

2006-04-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:55:16 +0300, Niki Balov wrote: i want to ask how to mask versions of glibc above 2.4? I compile my entire system with gcc3.4.5 and glibc 2.4 and i don't want to upgrade them. I added the following lines in package.mask sys-devel/gcc-3.4.5 sys-libs/glibc-2.4 but there