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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] neon: endless up-/down-grade
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 03:18:19
Message-Id: 7573e9640607302007s359af3fdqe5018297e89fc535@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] neon: endless up-/down-grade by Andreas Schoelver
1 On 7/30/06, Andreas Schoelver <tengri_lethos@×××.de> wrote:
2 > Hi all
3 >
4 > each world update either updates or downgrades neon depending
5 > on the version just installed at that moment.
6
7 It is a _very_ long-standing bug in portage that doesn't deal with
8 some dependancy situtations very well. [1]
9
10 The answer is usually to mask the newer version.
11
12 echo "# required by rapidsvn-0.9.0-r1" >>/etc/portage/package.mask
13 echo ">=net-misc/neon-0.24.7" >>/etc/portage/package.mask
14
15 -Richard
16
17 [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1343
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Re: [gentoo-user] neon: endless up-/down-grade Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-user] neon: endless up-/down-grade Andreas Schoelver <tengri_lethos@×××.de>