Bug 4262

Summary:	Some kind of package frozen file should be added to portage.
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Matthew Daubenspeck <matt>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2.0
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Matthew Daubenspeck 2002-06-27 21:26:09 UTC

Sorry. Bad choice of words. However, I think it may be helpful if there is some
way (like in a file) to list packages that I know I do not want, but are usually
added to the world upgrade anyway. kdegames and kdeedu for example.

If there was somewhere to mark these, other then by manually masking them each
time, it would be easy to NOT install unecessary packages.

This obviously could be a problem with depend checking, but there has to be a
way to mark packages that I know I do not want installed or upgraded.

Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-06-27 23:18:33 UTC

You can add:

<sys-apps/foo-0.0 

to /var/cache/edb/dep/world to do this.  Pretty sure that'll work.

If you don't want to upgrade, add:

<=sys-apps/foo-2.0 

... and that'll keep the version at 2.0 or below.