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On Monday 19 September 2005 07:57, Yann Garnier wrote: |
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> Greetings everyone, |
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> Can anybody tell me why portage constantly upgrade and then downgrade |
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> GCC (versions 3.3.5 & 3.3.6) each time I "emerge -pvuD world" ??? |
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A little trick I do when this kind of stuff happens. In portage, there's a |
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file called /etc/portage/package.mask. You can use it to mask packages that |
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aren't in /usr/portage/profile/package.mask. It is however, useful in |
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finding out why packages are downgrading. So, here's what you can do: |
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echo "=sys-devel/gcc-3.3.5" >> /etc/portage/package.mask |
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This will mask gcc 3.3.5. Now, when the package that wants gcc 3.3.5 is about |
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to be emerged, portage will notice that gcc 3.3.5 is masked and complain. |
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This complaining will do the nice favor of showing you what package needs it, |
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and find out why it does. After this you'll want to remove the package.mask |
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entry to avoid any sort of chaos. Hope this helps. |
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> In advance thank you |
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> Yann Garnier |
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Chris White |
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