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From: gottlieb@×××.edu
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] trouble downgrading systemd and virtual/udev
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 03:00:44
Message-Id: 87mwn0xp66.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] trouble downgrading systemd and virtual/udev by "Canek Peláez Valdés"
1 On Wed, Sep 25 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
2
3 > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 5:24 PM, <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote:
4 >> I want to downgrade systemd from 207-r2 to 204 (highest stable).
5 >>
6 >> I currently have virtual/udev-206-r2 installed, which prevents
7 >> systemd-204.
8 >>
9 >> OK. So I need to downgrade virtual/udev to 200.
10 >>
11 >> I thought
12 >> emerge -1 =virtual/udev-200 =sys-apps/systemd-204
13 >> would do it. But this failed (see below) and suggested masking
14 >> might help.
15 >>
16 >> So I added package.mask/systemd, which contains
17 >> >=virtual/udev-201
18 >> >=sys-apps/systemd-205
19 >> and then issued the same emerge as above.
20 >> But this also failed (see below).
21 >> What incantation do I need?
22 >
23 > Don't mask anything, just make sure that systemd (both virtual/ and
24 > sys-apps/) is not on package.keywords.
25
26 This system is ~amd64 (I should have said that earlier).
27 I don't believe there is a virtual/systemd package.
28 Did you mean virtual/udev?
29
30 If so, I would create
31 /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/systemd
32 and put in it two lines
33 -~sys-apps/systemd
34 -~virtual/udev
35
36 Correct?
37
38 thanks,
39 allan

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