XPost: comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: realnc@arcor.de   
      
   Mark Hobley wrote:   
   > In comp.os.linux.misc Mark Hobley    
   wrote:   
   >> I've just gone to upgrade the entire system using:   
   >> emerge -uavDN world   
   >>   
   >> This gives:   
   >>   
   >> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:   
   >> Calculating dependencies... done!   
   >>   
   >> [ebuild     U ] sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.27-r2 [2.6.23-r3] 0 kB   
   >> [ebuild  NS   ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.27-r8 [2.6.22-r8,   
   >> 2.6.24-r4, 2.6.25-r7] USE="-build -symlink" 49,509 kB   
   >   
   > These are the wrong packages. I have build my own kernel and referenced   
   > it using the /etc/src/linux symlink.   
   >   
   > I want to mask out all of the sys-kernel section from the Gentoo portage   
   > database.   
   >   
   > Can I use a wildcard in /etc/portage/package.mask as follows?   
   >   
   > sys-kernel/*   
      
   You can't.  You can however mask a range of package versions.  To mask   
   everything from gentoo-sources-2.6.26 and above and everything from   
   linux-headers-2.6.24 and above:   
      
      >=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.26   
      >=sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.24   
      
   ">=" means "higher than or equal to".   
      
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