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I wouldn't recommend this approach. This will probably break whatever package depends on |
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the older version of the flip-flopping package. |
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Paul Fraser wrote: |
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> You could use emerge -UDp instead, which will tell Portage to ignore any downgrades that may occur, and only show packages that will actually be updated. |
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> On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 12:58:28PM -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: |
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>>Ruben Vermeersch wrote: |
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>>>Ok, here's what's bugging me lately: |
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>>> ruben@neferteti ruben $ emerge -uDp world |
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>>> These are the packages that I would merge, in order: |
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>>> Calculating world dependencies ...done! |
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>>> [ebuild U ] x11-libs/wxGTK-2.4.1-r1 [2.4.0] |
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>>>After updating wxGTK, i stumble upon this: |
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>>> neferteti ruben # emerge -uDp world |
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>>> |
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>>> These are the packages that I would merge, in order: |
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>>> |
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>>> Calculating world dependencies ...done! |
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>>> [ebuild UD] x11-libs/wxGTK-2.4.0 [2.4.1-r1] |
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>>>Something tells me this ain't normal behaviour :) |
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>>I've seen this kind of thing a few times before, most notably with avifile |
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>>and drip. In this case, there is an update available for wxGTK, so portage |
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>>upgrades it. Unfortunately, there is some program installed that requires |
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>>on a version of wxGTK <=2.4.0, so portage downgrades it to not break the |
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>>other program. I consider this behavior a portage bug, but as far as I |
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>>know, there is currently no easy way to prevent this from happening. |
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>>Andrew Gaffney |
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