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From: Dan Johansson <Dan.Johansson@×××.nu>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: emerge -uDp wants to downgrade vmware-modules
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 19:55:50
Message-Id: 200905042155.45629.Dan.Johansson@dmj.nu
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Re: emerge -uDp wants to downgrade vmware-modules by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 On Sunday 03 May 2009, Duncan wrote:
2 > Dan Johansson <Dan.Johansson@×××.nu> posted
3 > 200905031107.24458.Dan.Johansson@×××.nu, excerpted below, on Sun, 03 May
4 >
5 > 2009 11:07:17 +0200:
6 > > I noticed that emerge wanted to downgrade my
7 > > app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r2
8 > >
9 > > # emerge --update --deep --verbose --reinstall changed-use world
10 > > --pretend
11 > >
12 > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
13 > >
14 > > Calculating dependencies... done!
15 > > [ebuild U ] dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.36 [2.34-r1] 0 kB [?=>0] [ebuild
16 > > UD] app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r2 [1.0.0.23] 0 kB [0]
17 > >
18 > > Total: 2 packages (1 upgrade, 1 downgrade), Size of downloads: 0 kB
19 > >
20 > > I really don't get it
21 >
22 > It's likely that your current version has been masked, for some reason.
23 > Try this to find out why:
24 >
25 > emerge --pretend =app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.23
26 >
27 > That should tell you why it can't remerge that version, spitting out the
28 > comment from package.mask or otherwise telling you what's wrong
29 > (keywords, blocker, whatever).
30 >
31 > FWIW, it lets me pretend-install that version here, but I don't have
32 > VMWare installed (it's proprietaryware which I don't do) so whatever
33 > blocker there might be I'm not seeing, and if the mask was just added in
34 > the last 24-36 hours or so, I'd not see it either as I've not synced in
35 > that time.
36 No it's not the vmware-modules ebuild - it's not masked or keyworded.
37 # emerge --pretend =app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.23
38
39 These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
40
41 Calculating dependencies... done!
42 [ebuild R ] app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.23
43
44 I think it's a change in the vmware-server ebuild - without version change
45 (:-(
46
47 # grep vmware-modules /usr/portage/app-emulation/vmware-server/*.ebuild
48 ~app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15
49 !<app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15
50 !>=app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.16
51
52 The !>=...1.0.0.16 must be a new addition in the last one to two weeks. Before
53 that this was not a problem.
54
55 If the devs think that 1.0.0.23 is a bad idea then OK I'll downgrade....
56 --
57 Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu>
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: emerge -uDp wants to downgrade vmware-modules Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>