Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 04:32:52 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> The few times I've tried backing down from current installed to older >> versions of something... I've had a problem getting the syntax right. >> >> According to man emerge and man portage this syntax should work: >> >> Either: emerge -vp ">="mail-mta/sendmail-8.13.7 >> or >> emerge -vp ">=mail-mta/sendmail-8.13.7" > > This upgrades >= means greater than or equal to, so it will install the > latest available version. You want one of > > emerge -av =mail-mta/sendmail-8.13.7 > > to emerge a specific version, or > > emerge -av "<mail-mta/sendmail-8.14.0"
> to get the latest available 8.13 version. > Gack, thanks... I had just carelessly used the examples in man pages. > You can also make this change permanent by adding > >=mail-mta/sendmail-8.14.0 > to /etc/portage.package.mask Neil was the above a typo? Or is it correct that using greater than or equal to 8.14.0 in /etc/portage.package.mask will cause a version of 8.13.X to be kept? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
