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Re: [gentoo-server] Ignore certain packages?

From: Ryan Gibbons <gibbonsr-ml(at)routedtechnologies.com>
Date: Wed Aug 08 2007 - 16:50:02 EDT

  1. Khattri wrote:
    > I have a production server running several packages that are either no
    > longer in the Portage tree or have dependencies that have moved or are no
    > longer in the tree. How do I tell Portage to ignore those packages when
    > doing updates?
    >
    >
    >
    You should be able to add the packages and the package version to /etc/portage/profilepackage.provided my understanding is that it basicallys tells portage this package is installed and I will manage all updates to it myself , including removal. -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list
Received on Wed Aug 8 16:52:33 2007

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