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On Wednesday 08 December 2004 3:44 am, Lindsay Haisley wrote: |
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> Thus spake Adam Petaccia on Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 09:00:16PM CST |
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> > > This list also includes updates on a number of packages which are |
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> > > apparently slipping through the cracks when I do a daily 'emerge -u |
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> > > world'. I've been noticing this for some time now. Some packages |
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> > > apparently didn't get registered with 'world' when they're built, and I |
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> > > come on them from time to time by chance and notice the version |
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> > > differences between what's installed and what's available. |
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> > |
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> > add "-D" to your emerge list and it should catch most everything, except |
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> > maybe orphaned dependencies (which, admitantly, portage *does* have a |
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> > problem with these). |
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> Portage may not be smart enough to work around selective use of unstable |
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> packages. e.g., I've had to use lm-sensors-2.8.8 (masked with ~x86) to get |
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> the package working, and have had to add a line to |
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> /etc/portage/package.mask to keep 'emerge -u world' from downgrading the |
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> package. If I set |
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> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" then portage wants to upgrade _everything_ to |
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> unstable. Not good! So with "<sys-apps/lm-sensors-2.8.8" in package.mask, |
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mkdir -p /etc/portage |
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echo 'sys-apps/lm-sensors ~x86' >>/etc/portage/package.keywords |
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Tada! Selective ~x86 keyword usage :) |
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Luke-Jr |
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Developer, Utopios |
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http://utopios.org/ |
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