I have one package from the "~x86" branch. How do I exclude that from
emerge -uDv world?

Bigbob

Bob Reinkemeyer wrote:
> I have one package from the "~x86" branch.

Does it have an entry in /etc/portage/package.keywords ? If not, 'man
portage' and add it.

> How do I exclude that from emerge -uDv world?

If you're asking what I think you're asking (question is unclear), you
shouldn't have a problem if you do as described above.

--
Ben M.

Ben Measures wrote:

> Bob Reinkemeyer wrote:
>> I have one package from the "~x86" branch.
>
> Does it have an entry in /etc/portage/package.keywords ? If not, 'man
> portage' and add it.
>
>> How do I exclude that from emerge -uDv world?
>
> If you're asking what I think you're asking (question is unclear), you
> shouldn't have a problem if you do as described above.
>
Thanks a lot. That worked Ok. What I really want is for portage to ignore
it altogether. I don't want to upgrade or downgrade it.

bigbob

Bob Reinkemeyer wrote:

> Ben Measures wrote:
>
>> Bob Reinkemeyer wrote:
>>> I have one package from the "~x86" branch.
>>
>> Does it have an entry in /etc/portage/package.keywords ? If not, 'man
>> portage' and add it.
>>
>>> How do I exclude that from emerge -uDv world?
>>
>> If you're asking what I think you're asking (question is unclear), you
>> shouldn't have a problem if you do as described above.
>>
> Thanks a lot. That worked Ok. What I really want is for portage to
> ignore
> it altogether. I don't want to upgrade or downgrade it.
>
> bigbob

Just emerge the package with --oneshot so it doesn't get added to world.


Stu

Stu wrote:

>> Thanks a lot. That worked Ok. What I really want is for portage to
>> ignore it altogether. I don't want to upgrade or downgrade it.
>
> Just emerge the package with --oneshot so it doesn't get added to
> world.

And that will break 'emerge depclean' (though not that many use that
feature). A better way might be to use the portage.mask file to mask
all higher and lower versions of the package.

--
PeKaJe

Windows, reboot. Linux, be root!

Bob Reinkemeyer enlightened us with:
> Thanks a lot. That worked Ok. What I really want is for portage to
> ignore it altogether. I don't want to upgrade or downgrade it.

Then add that package with the right version to
/etc/portage/package.keywords.

Sybren
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The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?