Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage wants to downgrade

[J Robert Ray]

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| |>|>When I run emerge -up world I get the following:
| |>|>
| |>|>[ebuild    UD] sys-devel/perl-5.6.1-r7 [5.8.0-r3]
| |>|>[ebuild    UD] app-crypt/gnupg-1.0.7 [1.2.1-r0]
| |>|>[ebuild    UD] net-www/mozilla-1.0.1-r3 [1.2.1-r1]
| |>|>
| |>|>These are masked packages that I installed earlier today. These
are not
| |>|>the only masked packages that I currently have installed, but it's
what
| |>|>I've installed today. Is it a coincidence that these are packages
| that I
| |>|>just installed (and there's something special about them), or could
| this
| |>|>be something that recently changed in Portage (the "D" is new to me) ?


This is the normal course of events when you do something like this:

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge some-masked-package

	then

emerge -up world

At this point, Portage pretends the masked version of
'some-masked-package' does not exist and wants to install the highest
versioned installable candidate.

The D means downgrade, I assume.

Ideally, Portage wouldn't want to downgrade these packages.  I think the
"sticky flags" feature being worked on will solve this problem.

A workaround is to inject the lower versions so Portage believes they
are already installed:

emerge -i sys-devel/perl-5.6.1-r7 app-crypt/gnupg-1.0.7
net-www/mozilla-1.0.1-r3

- - Robert
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