>> Is it possible in packages.mask to mask only release >> candidates/alpha/beta versions, while leaving final releases unmasked? > > what is the aim of this? To have a stable system? In that case you > should make sure ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in make.conf does NOT have a ~ > > Then you may get release candidates and betas but only when they're > proven to work, or work better.
I don't wand to mask all rc/alphas/betas for all packages, but only for some. The aim is to be able to use eg vanilla-sources versioned with 2.25, 2.25.1, 2.25.2, 2.25.3, 2.26. 2.26.1 while skipping 2.26_rcZ, 2.25.rcx, 2.27_rcX. Thanks, Marko -- [email protected] mailing list

