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On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:00 PM, <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Sep 25 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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>> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 5:24 PM, <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote: |
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>>> I want to downgrade systemd from 207-r2 to 204 (highest stable). |
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>>> I currently have virtual/udev-206-r2 installed, which prevents |
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>>> systemd-204. |
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>>> OK. So I need to downgrade virtual/udev to 200. |
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>>> I thought |
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>>> emerge -1 =virtual/udev-200 =sys-apps/systemd-204 |
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>>> would do it. But this failed (see below) and suggested masking |
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>>> might help. |
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>>> So I added package.mask/systemd, which contains |
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>>> >=virtual/udev-201 |
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>>> >=sys-apps/systemd-205 |
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>>> and then issued the same emerge as above. |
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>>> But this also failed (see below). |
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>>> What incantation do I need? |
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>> Don't mask anything, just make sure that systemd (both virtual/ and |
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>> sys-apps/) is not on package.keywords. |
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> This system is ~amd64 (I should have said that earlier). |
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Yeah. If you are in ~amd64, why do you want to downgrade systemd? |
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> I don't believe there is a virtual/systemd package. |
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> Did you mean virtual/udev? |
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Yes, sorry. |
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> If so, I would create |
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> /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/systemd |
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> and put in it two lines |
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> -~sys-apps/systemd |
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> -~virtual/udev |
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> Correct? |
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No, I thought you were in amd64, not ~amd64. If you are in ~amd64, |
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putting things in /etc/portage/package.keywords should be useless. |
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Mixing amd64 and ~amd64 is not supported; it usually works if you are |
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in amd64, and you only keyword some select packages: that's the way I |
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use GNOME 3.8, soon 3.10, in an otherwise stable system. The other way |
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around (being ~amd64, and trying to force downgrade of some packages) |
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sounds rather convoluted to me. I think it would be rather difficult. |
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You can try; since you are in ~amd64 you *need* to mask the latest |
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versions of both systemd and virtual/udev, the ones you do not want. |
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But I would not be surprised if it doesn't work: if *ALL* the system |
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is ~amd64, the probability of something forcibly pulling the latest |
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versions of *anything* increases dramatically. The block could be |
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impossible to solve. |
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If you are trying to downgrade systemd for the problems related to |
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GNOME and logind in 206, I'm happy to report that version 207 |
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(available since Sep 14) solves everything; at least in my desktop and |
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laptop. You should try it. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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