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From: Patrick Kursawe <phosphan@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge -Up tetex wants to downgrade
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 07:07:01
Message-Id: 20030429070659.GA14884@zaphod.anachem.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] emerge -Up tetex wants to downgrade by Denys Duchier
1 On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 10:01:03PM +0200, Denys Duchier wrote:
2 > "emerge -U" is not behaving as I would expect. I discovered this
3 > while trying "emerge -Up world" to see what I needed to update.
4 > Here is what I get:
5
6 > % emerge -Up tetex
7 > >>> --upgradeonly implies --update... adding --update to options.
8 >
9 > These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
10 >
11 > Calculating world dependencies ...done!
12 > [ebuild UD] app-text/tetex-1.0.7-r12 [2.0-r1]
13
14 Tetex 2.0-r1 has been removed from portage. It looks like emerge
15 tries to be on the safe side and rather downgrade than keep
16 a version it does not know about. If you upgrade to tetex-2.0.2,
17 emerge -U should no longer try to downgrade.
18
19 Bye, Patrick

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