I've been having serious problems with newer versions of gentoo-sources (basically 2.6.12-r9 and 2.6.12-r10), so I have downgraded to 2.6.12-r4, which is rock solid for me. So, I thought to add something like this atom to /etc/portage/package.mask:
>sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r4 However, what I really want to to is mask all versions of gentoo-sources greater than 2.6.12-r4 and less than or equal to 2.6.12-r10, so that I can test newer versions of gentoo-sources beyond 2.6.12-r10 when they become available. So, what I really want is something like this: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r4< >=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10 Of course, this syntax doesn't work and spits out an "Invalid atom" error when I run emerge. Does anyone know the proper syntax for what I want to achieve? Is it even possible to acheive this? Thank you for the help in advance, Matt As an aside, I think this latest instability with new versions of gentoo-sources has to do with problems using older versions of the nvidia drivers with newer kernel versions. Unfortunately, I cannot upgrade my nvidia drivers because my Geforce2 GTS is officially unsupported by the latest drivers. -- [email protected] mailing list
