Emerge tries to update my nvidia drivers when doing an update, but IMHO they are mask and emerge should not touch them Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge -[uU] world 2. 3. Actual Results: emerge tries to load version 4496 in spite it is masked Expected Results: do not touch the installed 4191 ---cut--- root@syl maik(0) # cat /etc/portage/package.mask =>media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.4192 =>media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.4192 root@syl maik(0) # qpkg -i -I nvidia media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.4191-r2 * Linux kernel module for the NVIDIA's X driver [ http://www.nvidia.com/ ] media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.4191 * XFree86 GLX libraries for the NVIDIA's X driver [ http://www.nvidia.com/ ] root@syl maik(0) # emerge -DpU world | grep nvidia [ebuild N ] media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.4496-r3 [ebuild U ] media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.4496 [1.0.4191] ---cut--- Prehistory: I had some problems with never versions of nvidia driver and want to fix the version to 4191. Last days, I discussed the problem on the German gentoo list, however, I was not sure what I did those days when making the changes to fix 4191. I recognised the problems first when emerge -UDp returned: --cut--- !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "~media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.4191" have been masked.!!! (dependency required by "media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.4191" [ebuild]) ---cut--- I thought that I probably installed nvidia-kernel from "source" those days (can not remember, sorry) and folowed the advice on the list to use emerge -i media-video/nvidia-kernel and to change the mask to >4192. Bevore that I had a wrong => 4191 therein. ---prehistory--- ---emerge info--- Portage 2.0.49-r20 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.4.20-xfs-r3) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-xfs-r3 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1 /share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/gen eric/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror http:/ /gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aalib acl acpi alsa apm arts avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cscope cup s curl dga dierctfb doc dvb dvd dvdr emacs encode esd ethereal fastcgi foomaticd b gb gd gdbm ggi gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gps gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imap imlib innodb jack java joystick jpeg kde ladcca lcms ldap libg++ libwww lirc mad mbox mcal mikmod motif mozilla mpeg mysql naspda ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pa m pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdl slang slp snmp socks5 spell ssl svga sysl tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype usb videos wmf x86 xml 2 xmms xosd xv zlib" ---emerge info---
read ebuild(5) again to see that the proper operator is '>='
