Re: [gentoo-user] Xfce update with wrong versions

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

On Wednesday 06 December 2006 23:07, Bertram Scharpf wrote:
> this is the shortened output of my latest "emerge -pvuD world":
>
> ----------------
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating world dependencies  ..... done!
> [...]
> [ebuild     U ] xfce-base/libxfce4util-4.3.99.2 [4.3.90.2] USE="-debug -doc" 292 kB
> [ebuild     U ] xfce-base/libxfcegui4-4.3.99.2 [4.3.90.2] USE="-debug -startup-notification" 456 kB
> [ebuild     U ] xfce-base/libxfce4mcs-4.3.99.2 [4.3.90.2] USE="-debug" 238 kB
> [ebuild     U ] xfce-base/xfce-mcs-manager-4.3.99.2 [4.3.90.2] USE="-debug" 591 kB
> [ebuild     U ] xfce-base/xfwm4-4.3.99.2 [4.3.90.2] USE="-debug -startup-notification -xcomposite" 1,581 kB
> [ebuild     U ] xfce-extra/xfwm4-themes-4.3.99.2 [4.3.90.2] USE="-debug" 485 kB
> [...]
> [ebuild     UD] xfce-base/libxfce4util-4.2.3.2 [4.3.90.2] USE="-debug -doc" 0 kB
> [ebuild     UD] xfce-base/libxfcegui4-4.2.3 [4.3.90.2] USE="-debug (-startup-notification%)" 0 kB
> [ebuild     UD] xfce-base/libxfce4mcs-4.2.3 [4.3.90.2] USE="-debug" 0 kB
> [ebuild     UD] xfce-base/xfce-mcs-manager-4.2.3 [4.3.90.2] USE="-debug" 0 kB
>
> Total size of downloads: 30,930 kB
> ----------------
>
> Obviously there is a bug in the version demand of the last
> four packages. The downgraded packages will not work.
>
> Looking a the ebuilds I find a ${PV} that seems to be
> correct.
>
> What would be the easiest fix? Besides that, where do I
> report this best?

This is a well known problem that will hopefully be fixed in portage 2.1.3. If
you file a bug it will be marked as a duplicate of but #1343 [1]. You need to
get rid of whatever package is pulling in the downgrade (or upgrade it to a
version that is compatible with 4.3.99.2). That's assuming you want the
upgrade. Alternatively you can package.mask 4.3.x. --tree should be able to
tell you what package(s) is pulling in the downgrade.

[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1343

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Bo Andresen