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Ben Munat wrote: |
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| Hello, |
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| Does anyone know what the story is with the deprecation of the |
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| --upgradeonly option on emerge? The emerge man page says: |
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| "This option is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. Please use the |
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| /etc/portage/package.* files from now on." |
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| but it doesn't say what these package.* files are supposed to be. None |
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| of my gentoo systems have any package.* files in the /etc/portage |
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| directory. |
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| Also the announcement page on the gentoo site talks about several other |
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| new features, but doesn't discuss this deprecation. |
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| I am using a few packages that are masked and I don't want portage to |
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| revert to an earlier version. The --upgradeonly switch was nice and |
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| easy... don't know why the devs had to screw with that. |
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| Ben |
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Another user asked this same question the other day on the gentoo-portage-dev |
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ML. A portage dev responded: |
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|1) emerge --upgradeonly |
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|> Why is this deprecated? I think it is endeed a useful feature. |
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|> I'm not sure that the files /etc/portage/package* are a good (esay-to-use) |
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|> replacement for it. |
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Downgrades happen when: |
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* a package's versioning changes and it is actually an upgrade, |
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* a package is broken and dangerous, or |
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* masking has been bypassed in some way. |
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In the first two cases, you want the change to happen. In the |
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third, /etc/portage/package* serves you much better. |
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HTH |
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- -- |
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~ Michelle: You should be chief. |
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Aaron Walker - Gentoo Developer [ Gentoo/BSD / cron / shell-tools ] |
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