[gentoo-user] Protecting a package in package.keywords?

> If you wanted to do something like that, and make all 0.9.x versions
> "stable" in package.keywords, then you would add this:
>
> =media-tv/ivtv-0.9*
>
> But if you just want to stick with 0.9.0, then what you had before is
> correct.
>
> =media-tv/ivtv-0.9.0

Excellent, I put both "=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r1" and
"=media-tv/ivtv-0.9.0" in my package.keywords and now I can emerge
world without worry.

If either of these versions get unmasked by the developers, am I back
in the same situation of needing to manually mask them to prevent
installation? At least I know this will work for now. Thanks.

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On 12/13/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <bo.andresen RemoveThis @zlin.dk> wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 December 2006 22:59, Travis Osterman wrote:
> > I needed to unmask ivtv by placing it in my
> > /etc/portage/package.keywords as "media-tv/ivtv". Now I'd like to
> > have my system not ask me to ever upgrade it again until the newer
> > version is required as a dependency of some other program.
>
> Why?

I tend not to upgrade for long periods on this box once it works and
when I do upgrade generally it is only one or two programs. Those
programs, however, have many dependencies and portage tends to want to
update everything. I'm trying to protect myself from myself in a year
running emerge some-app-with-new-feature and breaking ivtv because
there is a new kernel version which needs a new ivtv version, etc.

> You should package.mask the versions you don't want. Not the version you do
> want. So ">=media-tv/ivtv-0.9.1" seems to be what you're looking for.
> Or ">media-tv/ivtv-0.9.0"...

That was my thought too, based on the manual, but an entry (without a
version) in package.keywords takes precident over package.mask (which
I did not know). After adding your suggestion to package.mask
(">=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r2" and ">=media-tv/ivtv-0.9.1")
in addition to "~sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.19" and
"=media-tv/ivtv-0.9.0" in package.keywords, I tried emerge -pv itvt
and got the results I wanted ... nothing (even though version 0.9.1 is
out there). Now I am also confident that when these packages go
stable, they will be masked on my system ... perfect.

> Using package.provided is a *really* bad idea! It will bite you eventually...
> This is all documented in `man portage` and the handbook...

Yes, from what I've read avoiding package.provided is a good practice.
Thank you Steve Neil, and Bo, I have achieved what I aimed for.

-- Travis

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Dibb [mailto:beandog@gentoo.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 2:14 PM
> To: gentoo-user.DeleteThis@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting a package in package.keywords?
>
> Travis Osterman wrote:

<snip>

> Technically, you're going
> to be best off running
> the latest ivtv branch (irregardless of whether its marked stable).

<snip>

Sorry, but "irregardless" != English word

I'm not trying to deputize myself as a grammar police officer, but I'm
powerless to resist this one...

-
Jason

Do grammar police have K-9 units?

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> [SNIP]
>
> Hmm... If you put ~media-tv/ivtv-0.9.0 in both package.mask and
> package.keywords then you will find that ~media-tv/ivtv-0.9.0 cannot be
> installed because it is "masked by: package.mask". Hence I would say that
> package.mask takes precedence over package.keywords... I suppose what you
> wanted to say was that a package can be "masked by: ~arch keyword" without
> being in package.mask and hence won't be installed because it's masked by
> something...

I was speaking more of the following situation:

# cat /etc/portage/package.keywords | grep ivtv
media-tv/ivtv
# cat /etc/portage/package.mask | grep ivtv
~media-tv/ivtv-0.9.0
# emerge -pv ivtv
[ebuild N ] media-tv/ivtv-0.9.1

But I see you are correct with this:

# cat /etc/portage/package.keywords | grep ivtv
~media-tv/ivtv-0.9.0
# cat /etc/portage/package.mask | grep ivtv
~media-tv/ivtv-0.9.0
# emerge -pv ivtv
[ebuild N ] media-tv/ivtv-0.8.0

I guess I learned a few new things today. Thanks for all the information.

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