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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] trouble downgrading systemd and virtual/udev
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 05:02:26
Message-Id: 5243BF78.2000108@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] trouble downgrading systemd and virtual/udev by "Canek Peláez Valdés"
1 On 26/09/13 04:30, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
2 > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 5:24 PM, <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote:
3 >> I want to downgrade systemd from 207-r2 to 204 (highest stable).
4 >>
5 >> I currently have virtual/udev-206-r2 installed, which prevents
6 >> systemd-204.
7 >>
8 >> OK. So I need to downgrade virtual/udev to 200.
9 >>
10 >> I thought
11 >> emerge -1 =virtual/udev-200 =sys-apps/systemd-204
12 >> would do it. But this failed (see below) and suggested masking
13 >> might help.
14 >>
15 >> So I added package.mask/systemd, which contains
16 >> >=virtual/udev-201
17 >> >=sys-apps/systemd-205
18 >> and then issued the same emerge as above.
19 >> But this also failed (see below).
20 >> What incantation do I need?
21 >
22 > Don't mask anything, just make sure that systemd (both virtual/ and
23 > sys-apps/) is not on package.keywords. Then uninstall virtual/udev,
24 > downgrade systemd (just "emerge sys-apps/systemd") and then emerge
25 > again virtual/udev. The correct version should be emerged.
26 >
27 > Nothing in the tree (AFAICS) depends on >=virtual/udev-206, so it shoud be fine.
28
29 wrong.
30
31 >=sys-apps/hwids-20130717-r1 requires >=virtual/udev-206
32
33
34 >
35 > Regards
36 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] trouble downgrading systemd and virtual/udev "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@×××××.com>