Re: [gentoo-user] This is weird. upgrade and downgrade at the same time. ???

[Dale]

Holly Bostick wrote:

>Dale schreef:
>
>

Who is this schreef guy?  I'm just Dale. 


>>Hi guys, and Holly,
>>
>>I ran a revdep-rebuild on my main rig and it says it needs to do this:
>>
>>
>>
>>>[ebuild     UD] gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.10.1-r2 [2.12.2]
>>>
>>>
>>
>>OK, the "U" means Upgrade right?  The "D" means downgrade right?  What
>>the heck is going on here?  How is it going to upgrade then downgrade
>>and why?
>>
>>
>
>It's not going to "upgrade, then downgrade" It means that the upgrade
>*is* a downgrade from the version currently installed.
>
>

Oh, I see.  Sort of looks funny though.  LOL

>This can happen for a number of reasons, but all the reasons relate to
>the currently-installed package being "illegal" on your system in
>Portage's view.
>
>For example:
>
>1. You installed the current version with "ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~arch" on the
>command line; because this is a temporary setting that Portage doesn't
>remember after a new shell login, when a global Portage search is later
>run, Portage sees that only stable packages are "legal" and downgrades
>the upgrade;
>
>

I never do this. 

>2. The package has changed status since installation and is no longer
>legal (for example, the dev team has discovered major problems and hard
>masked the package, making it legal on _no-one's_ system-- this happened
>to me yesterday with the bash upgrade);
>
>3. The package that uses this package as a dependency cannot use this
>version of the currently-installed lib as a dependency (has a hard
>version dependency), so the package must be downgraded to serve as a
>dependency for the package in your world file that's demanding it.
>
>Etc., etc, enz.
>
>

Mine was in package.keywords for some reason.  I dunno.  A ghost 
maybe????  LOL

>
>You see that "using exisiting /root/.revdep-rebuild.1_files"?
>
>That means that you previously ran revdep-rebuild -p and the system is
>using that output to run the actual rebuild.
>
>

Yea, I just used the up arrow and bash history.  I usually rm the files 
before I run revdep.  The first time anyway.

>
>
>Do an emerge -upDtv gnome-vfs (after the downgrade, if you allow it).
>
>That should show you what is bringing it in (the --tree view), and the
>USE flags that package is using It's possible that you have the "gnome"
>USE flag enabled for a package that "doesn't need it", or another USE
>flag-- "eds" comes to mind" that forces the dependency.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Holly
>
>

Well, I took it out of package.keyword and this is what I get now.

> root@smoker / # revdep-rebuild -p
>
> Checking reverse dependencies...
> Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by any package update,
> will be recompiled.
>
> Collecting system binaries and libraries... done.
>   (/root/.revdep-rebuild.1_files)
>
> Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH... done.
>   (/root/.revdep-rebuild.2_ldpath)
>
> Checking dynamic linking consistency...
>  done.
>   (/root/.revdep-rebuild.3_rebuild)
>
> Assigning files to ebuilds... Nothing to rebuild
>
> Evaluating package order... done.
>   (/root/.revdep-rebuild.5_order)
>
> Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done.
> root@smoker / #


It works and it didn't change anything.  Oh well.  It works, I'm happy.

Thanks

Dale
:-)



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