Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] update world problem (looks like slot confusion on my part)
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 06:45:58
Message-Id: 20140621074543.18411fff@hactar.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] update world problem (looks like slot confusion on my part) by Rich Freeman
1 On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 21:20:52 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
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3 > > The moral is always look for portage trying to downgrade packages and
4 > > add the appropriate keyword entries when using this approach.
5 > >
6 >
7 > The only issue with this is that you never get back to stable that way.
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9 You will, it just takes a few steps with the odd package. The situation
10 only arises where a release is pulled before ever going stable,
11 generally because testing did its job and found a problem. Most packages
12 do not need this attention.
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16 Neil Bothwick
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18 Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by moving to where you
19 can't find them.

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