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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does portage want to downgrade Grub?
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 22:56:38
Message-Id: 3D717B2A-1CB9-4DA8-B96D-E08602AD28B4@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does portage want to downgrade Grub? by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On 12 December 2015 16:19:52 GMT+00:00, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On 12/12/15 18:02, Mike Gilbert wrote:
3 > > On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Nikos Chantziaras
4 > <realnc@×××××.com> wrote:
5 > >> emerge -auDN @world
6 > >> ...
7 > >> [ebuild UD ] sys-boot/grub-2.00_p5107-r2 [2.02_beta2-r7]
8 > >> USE="-custom-cflags%" GRUB_PLATFORMS="-yeeloong%"
9 > >>
10 > >>
11 > >> I currently have 2.02_beta2-r7 installed. It's not masked or
12 > anything. But
13 > >> portage wants to downgrade to 2.00_p5107-r2.
14 > >>
15 > >> I don't have any clue why that is.
16 > >
17 > > Possibly a bad Manifest entry. rsync has been pretty broken this
18 > week.
19 >
20 > Hm, indeed. grub-0.97-r16.ebuild was missing from the manifest, but
21 > it's
22 > weird that this would affect 2.02_beta2-r7. It shouldn't, right?
23
24 If the manifest fails, all ebuilds in that directory are considered suspect. Is the version portage wants to downgrade to in an overlay?
25 --
26 Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

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[gentoo-user] Re: Why does portage want to downgrade Grub? Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>