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From: Dave Oxley <dave@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Firefox downgrade?
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 23:02:18
Message-Id: 483206EE.1040400@daveoxley.co.uk
1 I've just upgraded to firefox 3rc1. I put the necessary in
2 /etc/portage/package.* but it didn't appear when doing an update world.
3 So I did an 'emerge -av mozilla-firefox'. This worked and you can see is
4 still working:
5 baldrick ~ # emerge -av mozilla-firefox
6
7 These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
8
9 Calculating dependencies... done!
10 [ebuild R ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0_rc1 USE="bindist dbus
11 java mozdevelop xulrunner -debug -gnome -ipv6 -restrict-javascript
12 -startup-notification" LINGUAS="en en_GB -af -ar -be -ca -cs -de -el
13 -en_US -es -es_AR -es_ES -eu -fi -fr -fy -fy_NL -ga -ga_IE -gu -gu_IN
14 -he -hu -id -it -ja -ka -ko -ku -lt -mk -mn -nb -nb_NO -nl -nn -nn_NO
15 -pa -pa_IN -pl -pt -pt_BR -pt_PT -ro -ru -sk -sq -sr -sv -sv_SE -tr -uk
16 -zh -zh_CN -zh_TW" 0 kB
17
18 Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
19
20 Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No]
21
22 However an update world tries to downgrade to firefox 2:
23 baldrick ~ # emerge --ask --verbose --update --deep --newuse --tree world
24 ....................
25 [ebuild UD] www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.14 [3.0_rc1]
26 USE="bindist java mozdevelop xinerama%* -debug -filepicker% -gnome
27 -iceweasel% -ipv6 -moznopango% -restrict-javascript -xforms% -xprint%
28 (-dbus%*) (-startup-notification%) (-xulrunner%*)" LINGUAS="en en_GB -af
29 -ar -be -bg% -ca -cs -da% -de -el -en_US -es -es_AR -es_ES -eu -fi -fr
30 -fy -fy_NL -ga -ga_IE -gu -gu_IN -he -hu -it -ja -ka -ko -ku -lt -mk -mn
31 -nb -nb_NO -nl -nn -nn_NO -pa -pa_IN -pl -pt -pt_BR -pt_PT -ro -ru -sk
32 -sl% -sv -sv_SE -tr -uk -zh -zh_CN -zh_TW (-id%) (-sq%) (-sr%)" 0 kB
33
34 /etc/portage/package.keywords (part of):
35 # Firefox and Thunderbird
36 www-client/mozilla-firefox ~x86
37 dev-libs/nspr ~x86
38 dev-libs/nss ~x86
39 x11-libs/cairo ~x86
40 x11-libs/pixman ~x86
41 net-libs/xulrunner ~x86
42 www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin ~x86
43 mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird ~x86
44 dev-libs/nss ~x86
45 x11-plugins/enigmail ~x86
46
47 /etc/portage/package.unmask (part of):
48 www-client/mozilla-firefox
49 dev-libs/nspr
50 dev-libs/nss
51 net-libs/xulrunner
52
53 Cheers,
54 Dave.
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