Bug 190 – it would be nice to have "pin" functionality for emerge --world update

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description aeoo 2002-01-15 19:12:25 UTC]

Sometimes you really don't want to upgrade some package for some reason.  It 
would be nice to be able to "pin" it to prevent it from being upgraded.

[Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2002-01-28 12:41:08 UTC]

good idea, this would be a nice "before 1.0" feature (since everyone will be
emerge updating like crazy from the get-go)

[Comment 2 Geert Bevin 2002-01-31 08:49:18 UTC]

any ideas about the actual implementation? an additional config file with a
similar format as package.mask ? daniel?

[Comment 3 Dan Armak (RETIRED) 2002-02-01 08:18:22 UTC]

I think that a combination of config file a la package.mask (with version 
range selection) and command line parameters is best.

[Comment 4 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2002-02-20 22:49:07 UTC]

I think Geert and I have figured out new 1.0 "world" functionality that will
also solve this problem.  Reassigning this one to me.

[Comment 5 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2002-03-28 19:10:22 UTC]

OK, this can now be done if you use portage-1.8.9_pre33+ (to be added within
minutes)... just add a dep to the /var/cache/edb/world file, and "emerge --world
update" will now respect it.