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From: J Robert Ray <jrray@g.o>
To: Emiel Kollof <coolvibe@××××××××××××.org>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage irk...
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 06:54:14
Message-Id: 3E3A1BEF.3090202@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Portage irk... by Emiel Kollof
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4 Emiel Kollof wrote:
5 | Hi folks,
6 |
7 | Why is it, when I unmask a package (with a higher version number than
8 the
9 | "official one") by using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS, portage downgrades it on the
10 next
11 | emerge -u world to a lower version? This is very irritating behaviour.
12 Can it
13 | be turned off or disabled somehow?
14 |
15 | Of course I can hack it out of portage (or hack something into portage
16 that
17 | watches version numbers and bypass mask checking), but that's kind of
18 a dirty
19 | way to do it.
20 |
21 | Any insights?
22
23 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12069
24
25 - - Robert
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