On Sunday 17 August 2003 02:18, Thomas Schweikle wrote:
> Hi!
>
> since portage has some difficulties deciding whats more actual:
>
> - media-libs/libmpeg2-0.3.1
> - media-libs/libmpeg2-0.3.2_pre20030625
>
> if media-libs/libmpeg2-0.3.1 is installed it will emerge
> media-libs/libmpeg2-0.3.2_pre20030625
> if media-libs/libmpeg2-0.3.2_pre20030625 is installed it will emerge
> media-libs/libmpeg2-0.3.1
>
> Thus emerging media-libs/libmpeg2 every time emerge -u --deep world is
> executed.
>
> I've tried to get around with putting
> ">=media-libs/libmpeg2-0.3.2_pre20030625" in the world file. But this seems
> to be ignored. Doing "emerge -u --deep world" emerges
> "media-libs/libmpeg2-0.3.1"! Looks realy as if there is a problem with
> "media-libs/libmpeg2-0.3.2_pre20030625" maybe it is the filename choosen?
> To be exact: "_pre20030625". Maybe this should read "-pre20030625"?

This looks more like a dependency problem. There is probably some package 
merged that depends on libmpeg2, and does not want pre2???, and also some 
package that wants pre2???

To check use qpkg to find out all packages that depend on libmpeg2

Paul

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