Can you keep the oldest stable version of a slotted pkg?

[mf2]

So I am using gentoo-sources as a kernel on my system, which is fine. However, updates to the kernel come to fast for my taste. Since the package offers various slots, is it possible to tell emerge somehow to keep it on the oldest slot and to only upgrade it if that slot is being removed?

Example: Let's say I am on gentoo-sources-5.10.224. When that slot leaves the portage tree, on a world update I want it to go to 5.10.226, not 6.11.0. Can this be achieved?

Of course I could mask the newer versions and lift the masks gradually, but I fear that I will miss updates then and stay on a deprecated kernel for too long.

[sam_]

Most (not all) of what you want here is to pin to a particular release series. We tried changing the slots in gentoo-sources a little while ago but people didn't like that. At some point I plan to propose something like a virtual for specific series (at least LTS) which pins to each one so people can emerge that and get that behaviour (or something along those lines).

For now, you can do something like this in package.mask:
sys-kernel/gentoo-sources

Then in package.unmask:
=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.10*

[mf2]

Thank you!

[dmpogo]