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On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 16:24:54 +0000 Luke-Jr <luke-jr@×××××××.org> wrote: |
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| > Because it's broken. It doesn't handle forced downgrades, |
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| Half the purpose is to ignore forced downgrades, IMO... |
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No, the purpose is to ignore downgrades caused by running ~arch packages |
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on an arch system. |
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| > version number system changes |
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| That's a bug in how Portage handles versions, not in -U |
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Nope. |
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| > or slots |
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| How so? |
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AFAICS, -U is totally un-SLOT-aware. |
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| > properly, and it will sometimes allow a downgrade anyway. |
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| Never seen this incident. |
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Try removing some ebuilds. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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