tracking unstable pacakages during emerge world

fbleagh · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Jun 2002 Posts: 98

hi guys,

I run gento on my desktop machine and I like to have most packages jsut running the latest stable version but some things like mplayer i like to have the latest version.

So when i want to compile something non-stable i just do

slartibartfasz · Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 11:59 am Post subject:

this may require some work but u could try the following:

disable ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in your make.conf

run emerge rsync

then (here comes the working part): write a script (shell, perl, whatever) that parses through the file /usr/portage/profile/package.mask and deletes every line that matches one of your must-have-packages

a following emerge -u world should now update all stable versions of normal packages plus the unstable packages u want to have, because now they are not masked any longer...
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doug-x07 · Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 12:17 pm Post subject:

See here for how to pin package versions. Another way of getting round the downgrade problem.
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