Re: [gentoo-dev] How to bump down revision numbers

[Lost Logic]

Have you run 'emerge -c' and checked 'qpkg -v --dups' to see that it 
doesn't still show the other version merged (if multiple versions have 
package stubs, portage doesn't necessarily know that both aren't 
co-existing).


--Brandon

maarten@××××××××.be wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've been assigned bug #2380. Our 1.1.2 version of jpeg-mmx is an
>unofficial, unmaintained fork so the ebuild version will need to be bumped
>down to the official 0.1.4.
>
>But even masking off the 1.1.2 ebuild doesn't make portage consider
>downgrading. Not even when I put a dependency in another package for the
>lower 0.1.4 version and emerge that one.
>
>I was wondering: is this a bug or a feature (to ward off inadvertent
>downgrades), and is there some "official" way of doing this?
>
>If all else fails I'll just make a new 1.1.2-r1 release, hardwire it to
>use the 0.1.4 version instead, and increase the dependencies as needed in
>other packages. Right?
>
>cheers,
>maarten
>
>murphy@g.o
>
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