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From: "Dustin C. Hatch" <admiralnemo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev downgrade
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 06:20:33
Message-Id: 50E6745D.5020509@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: udev downgrade by James
1 On 1/3/2013 20:54, James wrote:
2 > James <wireless <at> tampabay.rr.com> writes:
3 >
4 >
5 >> So unless somebody can give me good reason, I'm downgrading to
6 >> udev-171 asap on this (only) system running udev 196.......
7 >> (ps, I like to experiment, but not with udev et. al.)
8 >
9 > Long night, when you have to answer your own posts.....
10 >
11 > Now I get:
12 >
13 >
14 > emerge -p1u udev
15 >
16 > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
17 >
18 > Calculating dependencies... done!
19 > [ebuild UD ] sys-fs/udev-171-r9 [196-r1] USE="rule_generator%*
20 > -action_modeswitch% -build% -debug% -edd% (-extras) -floppy% {-test%}"
21 > [blocks B ] <sys-fs/udev-186 ("<sys-fs/udev-186" is blocking
22 > sys-fs/udev-init-scripts-17-r1)
23 >
24 > !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled
25 > !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
26 >
27 > sys-fs/udev:0
28 >
29 > (sys-fs/udev-196-r1::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
30 >
31 >> =sys-fs/udev-196-r1[gudev?,hwdb?,introspection?,keymap?,selinux?,static-libs?]
32 > required by (virtual/udev-196::gentoo, installed)
33 >
34 > (sys-fs/udev-171-r9::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by
35 > (no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages in this slot)
36 >
37 >
38 > ideas?
39 >
40 >
41 > James
42 >
43 >
44 The problem is you are trying to downgrade sys-fs/udev but not
45 virtual/udev. If you want to force using udev-171, you need to mask both
46 the real and virtual atoms. Try this in /etc/portage/package.mask/udev:
47
48 >=sys-fs/udev-181
49 >=virtual/udev-181
50
51 Then emerge -avuD1 udev and see if that fixes it.
52
53 --
54 ♫Dustin

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev downgrade Bruce Hill <daddy@×××××××××××××××××××××.com>
[gentoo-user] Re: udev downgrade James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>