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From: Aggelos <marmango@××××××××.gr>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge update question
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 15:42:30
Message-Id: 43BA9A64.9040202@freemail.gr
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge update question by "C. Beamer"
1 C. Beamer wrote:
2 > Rumen Yotov wrote:
3 >
4 >
5 >>On (03/01/06 00:30), C. Beamer wrote:
6 >>
7 >>
8 >>
9 >>>Hi all,
10 >>>
11 >>>I ran emerge --sync this evening and afterwards when I did 'emerge
12 >>>--pretend --update --deep world', I got the following result:
13 >>>
14 >>>These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
15 >>>
16 >>>Calculating world dependencies ..... .... ...done!
17 >>>[ebuild UD] media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.9a [1.0.10_rc3]
18 >>>[ebuild U ] media-libs/xvid-1.0.3 [1.0.2]
19 >>>[ebuild U ] media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20051216 [0.4.9_p20050226-r5]
20 >>>[ebuild U ] media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.1-r3 [1.1.1-r2]
21 >>>[ebuild U ] media-libs/libexif-0.6.12-r4 [0.5.12-r3]
22 >>>[ebuild U ] sys-apps/dbus-0.23.4-r1 [0.23-r3]
23 >>>[ebuild U ] sys-apps/hal-0.4.8 [0.4.7-r2]
24 >>>[ebuild U ] app-cdr/cdrdao-1.2.1 [1.2.0-r1]
25 >>>[ebuild U ] media-video/transcode-0.6.14-r3 [0.6.14-r2]
26 >>>
27 >>>I understand what this is telling me, but I don't understand why I would
28 >>>need to downgrade alsa-utils. I have alsa-driver version 1.0.10_r3 and
29 >>>up until today, when I synced, there wasn't a problem with alsa-utils.
30 >>>
31 >>>I assumed that the downgrade was because one of the other packages in
32 >>>the list. However, I did 'emerge --pretend' on each of the other
33 >>>packages and none listed alsa-utils as a dependency. Then, I emerged
34 >>>each of the packages individually and got no error messages. After
35 >>>emerging all other packages, my system reboots fine and there seems to
36 >>>be no problems. However, now if I run 'emerge --pretend --update --deep
37 >>>world', emerge still wants to downgrade alsa-utils.
38 >>>
39 >>>
40 >>>
41 >>>
42 >>
43 >>Hi,
44 >>It's a question of adding one additional option to emerge: --tree (-t).
45 >>It'll then display some additional packages for which the upgrades are
46 >>dependencies, check the one above alsa-utils - it requires the downgrade.
47 >>Rumen
48 >>
49 >>
50 >
51 > Since I upgraded all the packages individually, only alsa-utils remains
52 > for upgrade/downgrade. However, I did try 'emerge --pretend --update
53 > --deep --tree alsa-utils' and it didn't return any dependencies. The
54 > list as given above was the complete list, so I'm not sure what was
55 > meant by "check the one above alsa-utils'.
56 >
57 > Regards,
58 >
59 > Colleen
60 A few hours ago I ran emerge --sync
61 and it upgaded to alsa-utils-1.0.10
62 ;-) Aggelos.
63
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