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BigRedDot
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 Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2003 6:02 am Post subject: never upgrading a package |
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I am wondering how I can let portage know that I never want to upgrade a certain package. I positively can't stand the interface to emacs 21.2, no matter what build options and widget sets I try setting in the ebuild. I hacked together an ebuild for emacs 20.7 and I would like portage to stop telling me I need to upgrade it, since I never will.
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phong
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| Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2003 6:11 am Post subject: |
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You could add a line to /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask. It gets tossed with emerge rsync, but I have a little perl script that I run after each rsync to make some changes for packages that I unmask manually. The script for your situation would be a simple shell script (not tested):
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echo ">app-editors/emacs-20.7" >> /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask |
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BigRedDot
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| Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2003 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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Updating packages.mask every single time there's and emerge rsync is really the best solution? I guess I just assumed there had to be a simple way to specify packages that portage is not to touch. Oh well.
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choenig
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| Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2003 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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How about using the --oneshot option of emerge?
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--oneshot
Emerge as normal, but don't add packages to the world profile for later updating. This prevents consideration of this package unless this package is depended upon by another package.
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Or did I miss your question?
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tecknojunky
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| Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2003 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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| nevertheless wrote: | How about using the --oneshot option of emerge?
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--oneshot
Emerge as normal, but don't add packages to the world profile for later updating. This prevents consideration of this package unless this package is depended upon by another package.
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Or did I miss your question?
take care, have fun
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That should go in the tips and tricks.
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