From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30880 invoked by uid 1002); 30 Jan 2003 13:49:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 27053 invoked from network); 30 Jan 2003 13:49:21 -0000 From: Emiel Kollof Organization: Hackerheaven dot ORG To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 14:42:42 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200301301442.42253.coolvibe@hackerheaven.org> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Portage irk... X-Archives-Salt: 368bb0f8-ef48-4cc5-b4c9-62d8008b8e45 X-Archives-Hash: f8f249ee000023feb3b0353f1874a742 Hi folks, Why is it, when I unmask a package (with a higher version number than the "official one") by using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS, portage downgrades it on the next emerge -u world to a lower version? This is very irritating behaviour. Can it be turned off or disabled somehow? Of course I can hack it out of portage (or hack something into portage that watches version numbers and bypass mask checking), but that's kind of a dirty way to do it. Any insights? Cheers, Emiel -- The real reason large families benefit society is because at least a few of the children in the world shouldn't be raised by beginners. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list