From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11299 invoked by uid 1002); 1 May 2003 08:42:21 -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 6990 invoked from network); 1 May 2003 08:42:21 -0000 From: Tony Clark To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 10:42:17 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <200305010951.54071.tclark@telia.com> <200305010832.47633.mike-list@wakerly.com> In-Reply-To: <200305010832.47633.mike-list@wakerly.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305011042.24128.tclark@telia.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge -u program X-Archives-Salt: 9975fae8-2ec2-4ad4-a621-260f0dd8dd46 X-Archives-Hash: bfc3b520016a12d7642c63d13d3dca08 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 01 May 2003 10.32, mike wakerly wrote: > On Thursday 01 May 2003 07:51 am, Tony Clark wrote: > > My glibc and gcc aren't in stable release yet but when I went to upgrade > > a program it wanted to downgrade these. I can understand this behaviour > > when using emerge -u world but it doesn't make sence IMHO for a specific > > program. Not sure I can call it a bug, but it seems strange behaviour. > > You might want to use -U; it's the upgrade-only flag. I know how to solve the problem, but it isn't my point. My question is sho= uld=20 emerge -u someprogram be allowed to down grade other programs in the proces= s=20 unless DEPEND < current_installed_versions are actually specificed in the=20 ebuild. No problem with world behaviour, there I believe it does the corre= ct=20 thing. tony =2D --=20 Contract ASIC and FPGA design. Telephone +46 702 894 667 http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=3Dvindex&search=3D0x633E2623 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBPrDd8GkjRGZD9pCjAQKitgQAuMIONPfIghHwgM1xp+AhaC1ry/5ERnYV KRasXVop0GrUioRxMoq5PwGbxXZZd2tiALZY/KTaNRyoabAcF4e/E3MUbeW2bhS+ IecVLtJpuujY/rwS2arfGbQiHqIqoqPwuPmMQlGzWgiAXZIM/6bx/0uqXpeqKb2g pq5aPoowHu0=3D =3DP/f7 =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list