On Saturday 25 March 2006 12:16, Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Dave Jones wrote: > > Jorge Almeida wrote on 03/25/06 10:00: > >> $ cat /etc/portage/package.mask > >> > >> >media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7676 > >> >media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.7676-r1 > > > > nvidia-kernel-1.0.8178-r3 is the current ~x86 version, and works fine > > with gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r1. > > > > Try removing the specific version numbers from your package.mask to get > > the latest version. > > I did what you say and it really wants to emerge the new versions (only > did it with --pretend yet). But I still don't understand: what's the > meaning of ">" in the beginning of each line in > /etc/portage/package.mask? I thought it means that the version should be > 1.0.7676 or _newer_? Am I wrong? > > Thanks, > > Jorge Hi, ">media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7676" means that *any* version *greater* than 7676 is *masked* so i'll be unable to emerge any of them (incl. 8178 & newer) HTH.Rumen
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