Bug 2767 – emerge --pin-version =app-editors/xemacs-21.1* feature

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Matthew Kennedy (RETIRED) 2002-05-16 02:46:06 UTC]

(just note you requested for this)

Daniel, to support app-editors/xemacs/xemacs-21.1.14.ebuild and
app-editors/xemacs/xemacs-21.4.8.ebuild without masking either (so the user can
choose between them) and also to not have an emerge --update xemacs suggest a
xemacs-21.4.8 when the user has 21.1.14 already emerged, we need a

   emerge --asspecified =app-editors/xemacs-21.1*

type feature. This would add "=app-editors/xemacs-21.1*" into the world file.

Thanks again for this neat idea! I can stop pacing about the house thinking
about xemacs now :D

Here's the relevant part of our conversation:

<drobbins> another solution is to manually edit the world profile to have this
in it:
<drobbins> =app-editors/xemacs-21.1*
<drobbins> instead of:
<drobbins> app-editors/xemacs
<drobbins> We could easily add something like:
<mkennedy> yeah
<drobbins> emerge --asspecified =app-editors/xemacs-21.1*
<mkennedy> that would be very handy
<drobbins> ^^ that would put exactly what you specify in the world profile
<drobbins> mkennedy: maybe submit a bug report for that feature, assign it to me.
<mkennedy> okay cool then :)
<drobbins> ayep :)
<drobbins> and that's super-easy to add :)
<mkennedy> i don't really need to specify _gamma suffix either by this method.
is that right?
<drobbins> right.

[Comment 1 Arcady Genkin (RETIRED) 2002-05-16 10:18:03 UTC]

Nice idea, but the "--asspecified" seems to be a rather unintuitive option name.
 In fact I can't figure out how it emerged. ;^)

Can it be something else, like "--pin-version" or some such?

[Comment 2 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-12-02 05:37:52 UTC]

I do not know how valid this is anymore.

[Comment 3 Rendhalver (RETIRED) 2002-12-11 02:18:51 UTC]

im not sure either

we hope to have xemacs 21.4.11 as the next stable verson
and 21.1.14 will be that last version in the 21.1 series 

[Comment 4 Matthew Kennedy (RETIRED) 2002-12-14 00:11:06 UTC]

assigned

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2003-01-08 12:49:46 UTC]

*** Bug 5197 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2003-01-08 12:51:25 UTC]

an idea from Bug 5197 ...
when you do `emerge world -up` and a pkg is pinned, you show it with like [P] in
the bracketed list ...

of course you dont *actually* update it when you run `emerge world -u` ...

[Comment 7 SpanKY 2003-01-08 13:31:38 UTC]

*** Bug 8859 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 8 SpanKY 2003-01-08 14:53:09 UTC]

*** Bug 11593 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 9 Rendhalver (RETIRED) 2003-01-14 09:47:31 UTC]

just a note on this.
its almost official that xemacs-21.1.14 is being phased out and 21.4.11 is going
to be the new stable xemacs so people with 21.1.14 will be encouraged to upgrade.

[Comment 10 SpanKY 2003-11-03 11:25:56 UTC]

should we bother with pinning now that we have /etc/portage/package.[un]mask
?

[Comment 11 Charles Goodwin 2003-12-13 16:05:30 UTC]

Probably not.  You can just mask >app-editors/xemacs-21.1.14 right?