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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: portage dependency?
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:46:20
Message-Id: girf60$gs4$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: portage dependency? by Mark Haney
1 Mark Haney wrote:
2 > Duncan wrote:
3 >> "Mark Haney" <mhaney@××××××××××××.org> posted
4 >> 4951001C.10602@××××××××××××.org, excerpted below, on Tue, 23 Dec 2008
5 >> 10:13:32 -0500:
6 >>
7 >>> Duncan wrote:
8 >>>> "Mark Haney" <mhaney@××××××××××××.org> posted
9 >>>> 494FE6D7.2060408@××××××××××××.org, excerpted below, on Mon, 22 Dec
10 >>>> 2008 14:13:27 -0500:
11 >>>>
12 >>>>> I've been updating my system after having some surgery and taking time
13 >>>>> off from everything and I've noticed a funny thing. Certain packages
14 >>>>> are requiring that I install v2.1.4.5 or portage (I'm running 2.1.6.2
15 >>>>> now) before updating the other packages. Why is that?
16 >>>> So you're saying they're asking you to downgrade? Do you have an
17 >>>> example and is it in the main tree or some overlay (which)?
18 >>
19 >>>> What I suspect is happening is that it's depending on a specific
20 >>>> portage version, say =2.1.4*, instead of a slot, which portage should
21 >>>> support everything at least in the main tree.
22 >>
23 >>> It seems anything java related and mplayer as well.
24 >>
25 >>> octavian ~ # emerge -uav ant-core
26 >>>
27 >>> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
28 >>>
29 >>> Calculating dependencies... done!
30 >>> [ebuild UD] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.5 [2.1.6.2] USE="-build -doc
31 >>> -epydoc (-selinux)" LINGUAS="-pl" 0 kB *** Portage will stop merging at
32 >>> this point and reload itself,
33 >>> then resume the merge.
34 >>> [ebuild U ] dev-java/ant-core-1.7.1-r2 [1.7.0-r1] USE="-doc -source"
35 >>> 6,828 kB
36 >>>
37 >>> ---
38 >>> Calculating dependencies... done!
39 >>> [ebuild UD] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.5 [2.1.6.2] USE="-build -doc
40 >>> -epydoc (-selinux)" LINGUAS="-pl" 0 kB [ebuild U ]
41 >>> dev-java/sun-jre-bin-1.6.0.11 [1.6.0.07] USE="X alsa (-nsplugin) -odbc"
42 >>> 0 kB
43 >>>
44 >>> ----
45 >>> [ebuild UD] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.5 [2.1.6.2] USE="-build -doc
46 >>> -epydoc (-selinux)" LINGUAS="-pl" 0 kB [ebuild U ]
47 >>> media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p28058-r1 [1.0_rc2_p27725-r1] USE="X a52 aac
48 >>> alsa arts ass%* dvd encode iconv ipv6 jpeg mad mmx mp3opengl png
49 >>
50 >> Hmm... I'm running the portage-2.2-rcs, unmasked as I had started
51 >> using the set dependencies before it was masked to get more ~arch
52 >> testing for 2.1.6*, and I don't see it trying to downgrade portage
53 >> when I emerge -p any of those here. So it's not a direct portage
54 >> version issue.
55 >>
56 >> Do you happen to have a version of portage in either package.unmask or
57 >> package.keyword? You're normally running stable, right?
58 >> Portage-2.1.6* is keyworded ~arch, so if you're normally running
59 >> stable but had 2.1.6* for some reason and don't have it in
60 >> package.keywords, that's why it's trying to downgrade.
61 >
62 > Well, I had the 2.2_rc series for a while so I could upgrade to KDE
63 > 4.1.3. Then, I moved to 2.1.6.2 when the 2.2 series was pulled from
64 > ~arch. I don't see anything in portage in particular in
65 > package.keywords or package.unmask about portage. I just manually
66 > updated to the ~arch version of portage (using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS from the
67 > CLI). Should I add portage to package.keywords to make this go away?
68
69 Well, such a one-shot ~arch emerge is just that: one-time. It's only
70 for testing. If you want to keep the ~arch package, you have to list
71 its name in package.keywords.

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