On Friday 17 June 2005 14:07, Holly Bostick wrote:
> Martins Steinbergs schreef:
> > hi,
> >
> > im wondering how to avoid packages from upgrade or downgrade, at last
> > found that ati-drivers-8.14.13 compile with kernel vanilla 2.6.11.11 and
> > it would be good that this pair stays as is while --update world.
> >
> > Martins
>
> Well, the ATI drivers won't be updated until August (they have a
> two-month release cycle), so no need to worry about an update showing up
> for those for a while.
>
> As for the kernel, it's not going to be 'updated' until you yourself
> update it-- since all that would be installed is the uncompiled source.
> Even your symlink won't change from pointing at the currently-installed
> kernel to the new source if you don't have the 'symlink' keyword set.
>
> But still, it's a pain having uncompiled kernel source that you don't
> want/need hanging around, and it takes a longish time to download, so
> you might as well mask it:
for updates this is good economy:
FETCHCOMMAND="/usr/bin/getdelta.sh \$\{URI\}"
>
> echo '>sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.11.11' >>/etc/portage/package.mask
>
> should do it. The issue here is that you won't see any updates unless
> you specifically look for them on packages.gentoo.org, or using esync--
> all other 'normal' ways of knowing that an installed package was updated
> will now for this package be blocked. So when 2.6.12 goes from testing
> to stable, you won't see that. If you mask the ati-driver as well, you
> also won't see it if they release an interim update with the necessary
> patches against 2.6.12 (apparently the current release is almost ready
> to support 2.6.12, but the kernel was not released yet at the time of
> their release-- or was released too close to ATI's release for them to
> update their release-- and ATI has a policy of not supporting -rc or
> unreleased/unstable kernels. But apparently it would be "but a moment's
> work" on ATI's part to support 2.6.12, if they didn't in fact get the
> support included at the last minute before they released 8.14.13, which
> was the plan, as far as I heard on the Rage3D forums from mtippett, who
> is the project leader for the ATI Linux drivers).
>
> So it might be worth it to try compiling 8.14.13 against 2.6.12; it
> might very well work, and then you could mask kernel updates with more
> confidence.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Holly
i tried with vanilla 2.6.12-rc6 - no luck. fglrx wont compile.
martins
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