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On Monday 17 October 2005 04:51, John C. Shimek wrote: |
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> >>emm, is not -uD something almost everybody does, but nobody should do? |
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> >>I had the same error - AFAIR reemerging java-config solved it. |
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> No, -uD is update deep, -UD is what you should NOT be doing. the U |
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> means update only. The difference is if say package-1.45 was marked |
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> stable and then found to be buggy, it gets masked in some way. Then |
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> package-1.44 would be the most current stable package. The U flag says |
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> not to go back to the 1.44 package. On the other hand, the -u flag will |
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> "upgrade" to an older package if it is currently the newest unmasked or |
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> stable package. |
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-U is the OTHER flag you should never use ;) |
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If I remember correctly, a lot of time ago, it was said that you should not |
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use -d, and must not use -U .... |
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but ok, everybody chooses his own poison. |
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I never do --deep updates, but occasionally -U update, because I am not |
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willing to fiddle around with /etc/portage/package.mask /-.unmask for |
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something that will be/should be marked stable in the next few days.... |
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