Alex Fortwinder wrote: > Hi again. I did everything you've suggested and put those in > /etc/portage/mask, however I got this: > > > --- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.mask: mail-client/sylpheed-2.2.5 > --- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.mask: > www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.4 > --- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.mask: xorg-x11-7.0-r1 > > What's atom it's talking about? Thanks again >
The 'atom' being each line. Because you have specified a version number, you will need to tell it if you mean just that version (=) or anything newer than that version (>=) thus www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.4 would become >=www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.4 Tim > Alex > > > > > > > On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 11:24:07 -0500 > Randy Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Alex Fortwinder wrote: >> >>> I's like to update my system, however, I'd like to keep some of the >>> packages as they are (X, firefox, kernel, etc) >>> How do I go about it before i run emerge --update --deep --newuse world? >>> >> Add entries to /etc/portage/package.mask. Something like: >> >> >>> x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0-r1 >>> >> would tell portage not to merge anything "greater than" X version >> 7.0-r1. You could also just put 7.0 and it would at least get you the >> bug fixes (r2, r3, etc. when they come along). Enjoy! >> >> R >> -- >> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list >> >> -- Tim Igoe http://tv.igoe.me.uk - UK TV Guide "Computers are like Air-con, open windows and they stop working!"
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