Bug 54248

Summary:	emerge needs options to disclude an ebuild from -u runs manually
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Eitan Mosenkis <eitan>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Eitan Mosenkis 2004-06-17 20:20:57 UTC

When you run emerge in ways that will install multiple ebuilds, you need to be able to specifically tell it not to install certain packages (or upgrade, downgrade, remove, or otherwise touch them)
For instance:
I had problems with X and eventually solved some of them by installing 4.3.99.  It used to be that using -uU would stop it from replacing 4.3.99 with 4.3.0, but now it seems to have dissapeared from the portage tree, so -uU doesn't work anymore.  Thus, if I could run emerge with something like: emerge -uU --not xfree then I could continue to update my packages automatically without it destroying X, which is the worst thing I can think of to have to keep changing. (Config files are screwy)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install xfree 4.3.99 somehow
2.Run emerge -pUu world
3.See that it still wants to downgrade xfree and theres no way to stop it except not using -u and doing it one by one

Actual Results:  
It tries to emerge xfree 4.3.0 despite the downgrade

Expected Results:  
It should have a way to stop it from changing xfree at all until theres an upgrade

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-06-17 20:28:40 UTC

4.3.99 has disappeared because you're supposed to be using xorg-x11 :P

`emerge -i x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r7`

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16342 ***