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From: "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] trouble downgrading systemd and virtual/udev
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 01:30:55
Message-Id: CADPrc82rRRxXqTqCcphuRuZFwxotPMQpiwrK7yt_ckeiUYaWMA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] trouble downgrading systemd and virtual/udev by gottlieb@nyu.edu
1 On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 5:24 PM, <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote:
2 > I want to downgrade systemd from 207-r2 to 204 (highest stable).
3 >
4 > I currently have virtual/udev-206-r2 installed, which prevents
5 > systemd-204.
6 >
7 > OK. So I need to downgrade virtual/udev to 200.
8 >
9 > I thought
10 > emerge -1 =virtual/udev-200 =sys-apps/systemd-204
11 > would do it. But this failed (see below) and suggested masking
12 > might help.
13 >
14 > So I added package.mask/systemd, which contains
15 > >=virtual/udev-201
16 > >=sys-apps/systemd-205
17 > and then issued the same emerge as above.
18 > But this also failed (see below).
19 > What incantation do I need?
20
21 Don't mask anything, just make sure that systemd (both virtual/ and
22 sys-apps/) is not on package.keywords. Then uninstall virtual/udev,
23 downgrade systemd (just "emerge sys-apps/systemd") and then emerge
24 again virtual/udev. The correct version should be emerged.
25
26 Nothing in the tree (AFAICS) depends on >=virtual/udev-206, so it shoud be fine.
27
28 Regards
29 --
30 Canek Peláez Valdés
31 Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
32 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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