Thus spake Luke-Jr on Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 09:53:20PM CST
> On Wednesday 08 December 2004 3:44 am, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
> > Thus spake Adam Petaccia on Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 09:00:16PM CST
> >
> > > > This list also includes updates on a number of packages which are
> > > > apparently slipping through the cracks when I do a daily 'emerge -u
> > > > world'.  I've been noticing this for some time now.  Some packages
> > > > apparently didn't get registered with 'world' when they're built, and I
> > > > come on them from time to time by chance and notice the version
> > > > differences between what's installed and what's available.
> > >
> > > add "-D" to your emerge list and it should catch most everything, except
> > > maybe orphaned dependencies (which, admitantly, portage *does* have a
> > > problem with these).
> >
> > Portage may not be smart enough to work around selective use of unstable
> > packages.  e.g., I've had to use lm-sensors-2.8.8 (masked with ~x86) to get
> > the package working, and have had to add a line to
> > /etc/portage/package.mask to keep 'emerge -u world' from downgrading the
> > package.  If I set
> > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" then portage wants to upgrade _everything_ to
> > unstable.  Not good!  So with "<sys-apps/lm-sensors-2.8.8" in package.mask,
> 
> mkdir -p /etc/portage
> echo 'sys-apps/lm-sensors ~x86' >>/etc/portage/package.keywords
> 
> Tada! Selective ~x86 keyword usage :)

Thanks, folks!  I think I have it under control now :)

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