How Do I "Protect" Packages from Being Replaced?

[carney1979]

I installed a package the other day. The normal version that emerge wanted to install wouldn't compile, so I used:

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge packagename

...to install the next revision up.

Now, when I do an 'emerge world', this package wants to downgrade to the version that wouldn't compile.

The version of the package installed now works fine, so how do I keep it from wanting to do that?

David

[BWoso]

you can due emerge -UD world and the U makes it so that it only upgrades the package and doesn't downgrade it
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[polle]

create a directory /etc/portage
in this directory you place the ebuilds in a file that's called package.mask

you can do that easily like this:

# mkdir -p /etc/portage
# echo "=net-www/mozilla-1-6" >> /etc/portage/package.mask

(for mozilla-1.6 of course, replace by your ebuild)

[RJG]

I'd suggest using "<" instead of "=" in package.mask

= means it will block the specified version, < will block any version less than the one specified (which meets your request better as it will allow newer versions to be installed when they become available).