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Subject: Re: emerge -Up tetex wants to downgrade
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 17:41:39 +0200
Patrick Kursawe <phosphan@g.o> writes:

>> Calculating world dependencies ...done!
>> [ebuild    UD] app-text/tetex-1.0.7-r12 [2.0-r1]
>
> Tetex 2.0-r1 has been removed from portage. It looks like emerge
> tries to be on the safe side and rather downgrade than keep
> a version it does not know about. If you upgrade to tetex-2.0.2,
> emerge -U should no longer try to downgrade.

Thank you very much!  That explains it and your suggestion fixed the
problem.  However, is this really the _right_ behaviour?

    o portage actually knows something about tetex 2.0-r1 since it is
      emerged

    o --upgradeonly promises to not downgrade: regardless of whether
      there is currently an ebuild for the installed version, the
      version is known, and IMHO that fixes the semantics of
      downgrading

    o maybe --pretend could provide an indication that no ebuild for
      the currently installed version can be found

Comments?

-- 
Denys Duchier - Équipe Calligramme - LORIA, Nancy, France


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