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From: "C. Beamer" <cbeamer@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] emerge update question
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 05:33:53
Message-Id: 43B9C59E.3090106@interlynx.net
1 Hi all,
2
3 I ran emerge --sync this evening and afterwards when I did 'emerge
4 --pretend --update --deep world', I got the following result:
5
6 These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
7
8 Calculating world dependencies ..... .... ...done!
9 [ebuild UD] media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.9a [1.0.10_rc3]
10 [ebuild U ] media-libs/xvid-1.0.3 [1.0.2]
11 [ebuild U ] media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20051216 [0.4.9_p20050226-r5]
12 [ebuild U ] media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.1-r3 [1.1.1-r2]
13 [ebuild U ] media-libs/libexif-0.6.12-r4 [0.5.12-r3]
14 [ebuild U ] sys-apps/dbus-0.23.4-r1 [0.23-r3]
15 [ebuild U ] sys-apps/hal-0.4.8 [0.4.7-r2]
16 [ebuild U ] app-cdr/cdrdao-1.2.1 [1.2.0-r1]
17 [ebuild U ] media-video/transcode-0.6.14-r3 [0.6.14-r2]
18
19 I understand what this is telling me, but I don't understand why I would
20 need to downgrade alsa-utils. I have alsa-driver version 1.0.10_r3 and
21 up until today, when I synced, there wasn't a problem with alsa-libs.
22
23 I assumed that the downgrade was because one of the other packages in
24 the list. However, I did 'emerge --pretend' on each of the other
25 packages and none listed alsa-utils as a dependency. Then, I emerged
26 each of the packages individually and got no error messages. After
27 emerging all other packages, my system reboots fine and there seems to
28 be no problems. However, now if I run 'emerge --pretend --update --deep
29 world', emerge still wants to downgrade alsa-utils.
30
31 In other situations (like for the ati-drivers), I put
32 '=x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.14.13-r5 ~x86' in my package.keywords file
33 to get around upgrading the driver because with the newer version of
34 this driver, my system won't shutdown or reboot when either of those
35 options are chosen from the menu on KDE logout. However, I tried this
36 and I get a message about an "invalid atom" (even without the ~x86 at
37 the end of the line).
38
39 I don't want to downgrade the alsa-utils in case it breaks alsa-driver
40 and as I said, I don't understand why all of a sudden I would have to.
41
42 How do I prevent the downgrade during an emerge --update world without
43 having to emerge each package individually?
44
45 Regards,
46
47 Colleen
48
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