Re: [gentoo-user] Determine cause of xorg-server downgrade?

[Jack]

On 2020.08.27 15:59, Grant Edwards wrote:
> How do you determine the cause of a downgrade?
>
> Today I did "emerge --sync" and "emerge -auvNDt world" with (I think)
> no configuration changes since the last update a couple days ago, and
> now emerge wants to downgrade xorg-server from 1.20.9 to 1.20.8-r1:
>
>   Calculating dependencies... done!
>   [ebuild  rR    ]
> x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.99.917_p20200515::gentoo  USE="dri sna
> udev uxa xvmc -debug -tools" 0 KiB
>   [ebuild     U  ] www-client/google-chrome-85.0.4183.83::gentoo
> [84.0.4147.135::gentoo] USE="(-selinux)" L10N="am ar bg bn ca cs da
> de el en-GB es es-419 et fa fi fil fr gu he hi hr hu id it ja kn ko
> lt lv ml mr ms nb nl pl pt-BR pt-PT ro ru sk sl sr sv sw ta te th tr
> uk vi zh-CN zh-TW" 31,175 KiB
>   [ebuild  rR    ] x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics-1.9.1::gentoo  0
> KiB
>   [ebuild  rR    ] x11-drivers/xf86-input-libinput-0.30.0::gentoo  0
> KiB
>   [ebuild  r  UD ]  x11-base/xorg-server-1.20.8-r1:0/1.20.8::gentoo
> [1.20.9:0/1.20.9::gentoo] USE="elogind ipv6 (libglvnd) udev xorg
> -debug -dmx -doc -kdrive -libressl -minimal (-selinux) -static-libs
> -suid -systemd -unwind -wayland -xcsecurity -xephyr -xnest -xvfb" 0
> KiB
>
>   Total: 5 packages (1 upgrade, 1 downgrade, 3 reinstalls), Size of
> downloads: 31,175 KiB
>
> AFAICT both 1.20.9 and 1.20.8-r1 are stable on amd4 (the only
> difference between the two .ebuild files are the keywords for hppa and
> ppc).  I can't find any ebuilds that appear to depend on the
> downgraded version.
>
> --
> Grant
1.20.9 has temporarily been masked.  It looks like you got caught in  
the short window between stabilization and masking, as I did on one of  
my two machines.

# Piotr Karbowski <slashbeast@g.o> (2020-08-28)
# Temporary mask due to multiple reports of segfaults at startup, bug  
#739056
=x11-base/xorg-server-1.20.9