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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Determine cause of xorg-server downgrade?
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 20:06:34
Message-Id: ri93o0$qd0$1@ciao.gmane.io
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Determine cause of xorg-server downgrade? by Grant Edwards
1 On 2020-08-27, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > How do you determine the cause of a downgrade?
3 >
4 > Today I did "emerge --sync" and "emerge -auvNDt world" with (I think)
5 > no configuration changes since the last update a couple days ago, and
6 > now emerge wants to downgrade xorg-server from 1.20.9 to 1.20.8-r1:
7
8 It's obvious enough if you just ask it to install xorg-server-1.20.9:
9
10 emerge -av =x11-base/xorg-server-1.20.9
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15 These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
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17 Calculating dependencies... done!
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19 !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "=x11-base/xorg-server-1.20.9" have been masked.
20 !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
21 - x11-base/xorg-server-1.20.9::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)
22 /var/db/repos/gentoo/profiles/package.mask:
23 # Piotr Karbowski <slashbeast@g.o> (2020-08-28)
24 # Temporary mask due to multiple reports of segfaults at startup, bug #739056