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Duncan wrote: |
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> "Mark Haney" <mhaney@××××××××××××.org> posted |
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> 494FE6D7.2060408@××××××××××××.org, excerpted below, on Mon, 22 Dec 2008 |
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> 14:13:27 -0500: |
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>> I've been updating my system after having some surgery and taking time |
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>> off from everything and I've noticed a funny thing. Certain packages are |
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>> requiring that I install v2.1.4.5 or portage (I'm running 2.1.6.2 now) |
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>> before updating the other packages. Why is that? |
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> So you're saying they're asking you to downgrade? Do you have an example |
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> and is it in the main tree or some overlay (which)? |
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> I /think/ that'd be a bug as to date portage has been backward compatible |
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> such that new versions should handle old ebuilds just fine, but I can't |
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> say for sure without an example to look at the code on and see what it's |
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> actually trying to do, where and why. |
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> What I suspect is happening is that it's depending on a specific portage |
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> version, say =2.1.4*, instead of a slot, which portage should support |
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> everything at least in the main tree. IOW it shouldn't be happening in |
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> the main tree. However, it could still be occurring in some obscure |
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> overlay that doesn't get much testing from ~portage, maybe one that has |
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> mostly paludis or pkgcore users? |
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> But it's all speculation until there's an example to look at, and the |
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> problem sounds strange enough I'm doubting I'm reading what you said |
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> correctly in the first place. |
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It seems anything java related and mplayer as well. Which of course I |
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don't understand at all. It also might be a required portage version as |
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you say, but I don't know how to determine that. |
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octavian ~ # emerge -uav ant-core |
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These are the packages that would be merged, in order: |
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Calculating dependencies... done! |
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[ebuild UD] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.5 [2.1.6.2] USE="-build -doc |
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-epydoc (-selinux)" LINGUAS="-pl" 0 kB |
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*** Portage will stop merging at this point and reload itself, |
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then resume the merge. |
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[ebuild U ] dev-java/ant-core-1.7.1-r2 [1.7.0-r1] USE="-doc -source" |
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6,828 kB |
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Calculating dependencies... done! |
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[ebuild UD] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.5 [2.1.6.2] USE="-build -doc |
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-epydoc (-selinux)" LINGUAS="-pl" 0 kB |
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[ebuild U ] dev-java/sun-jre-bin-1.6.0.11 [1.6.0.07] USE="X alsa |
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(-nsplugin) -odbc" 0 kB |
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[ebuild UD] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.5 [2.1.6.2] USE="-build -doc |
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-epydoc (-selinux)" LINGUAS="-pl" 0 kB |
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[ebuild U ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p28058-r1 |
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[1.0_rc2_p27725-r1] USE="X a52 aac alsa arts ass%* dvd encode iconv ipv6 |
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jpeg mad mmx mp3opengl png |
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