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On Thursday 30 January 2003 08:42 am, Emiel Kollof wrote: |
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> Hi folks, |
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> Why is it, when I unmask a package (with a higher version number than |
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> the "official one") by using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS, portage downgrades it on |
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> the next emerge -u world to a lower version? This is very irritating |
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> behaviour. Can it be turned off or disabled somehow? |
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One way to do it: remove whatever packages you do not want touched by |
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"world" out of /var/cache/edb/world. The packages in that file are the |
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only ones that will get looked at whenever you run 'emerge -u world'. |
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Secondarily, I suggest running 'emerge -up world' to see what would be |
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downgraded first, without actually running anything. |
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Automatic downgrading is generally healthy behavior (if for example, we |
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unmasked a new version which later proved broken/unstable, therefore we |
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need people to revert to an older, stable release). |
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This is a FAQ... I'm sure there are some enhancements to Portage underway |
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which will make this issue more elegant/intuitive. |
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Cheers, |
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Dylan Carlson [absinthe@×××××.com] |
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