[SOLVED]how to mask special nvidia-drivers

[xerxesmc]

hi, i know the title sounds noobish...
anyway thats the situation

i want to keep my current nvidia-driver since its the most stable for me atm, i use x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-100.14.03

when i "emerge -uD world" emerge tries to pull newer versions of the driver, its reasonable, but since i dont want this i did

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cat "<x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-100.14.03" >> /etc/portage/package.mask
cat ">x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-100.14.03" >> /etc/portage/package.mask

unfortunately it doesnt work as expected, all other entries in my /etc/portage/package.mask take effect, besides these nvidia ones.

i feel lost in some way.

maybe i have this problem because i have my current driver in some overlay? i actually could prune x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers from my portage, but is there a less aggressive way of preventing emerge to pull newer versions of nvidia-drivers?

thx in advance

[Rob1n]

That ought to work (providing you actually used echo rather than cat) - are these lines definitely in your /etc/portage/package.mask file? And are there any in /etc/portage/package.unmask which may be overriding (I'm not sure what order they're applied in)?

[xerxesmc]

sry i meant "echo" instead of "cat"

and ur suggestion did the trick i had

x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers

in my /etc/portage/package.unmask

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