Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage wants to downgrade

[Bob Thomas <gtg663h@mail.gatech.edu>]

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Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
| It is because perl 5.8.0 is masked.  You could trying runing the
| unstable/testing version, ~.
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| Tom Veldhouse
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| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Bob Thomas" <gtg663h@mail.gatech.edu>
| To: "gentoo-dev" <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
| Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 6:32 PM
| Subject: [gentoo-dev] Portage wants to downgrade
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|>When I run emerge -up world I get the following:
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|>[ebuild    UD] sys-devel/perl-5.6.1-r7 [5.8.0-r3]
|>[ebuild    UD] app-crypt/gnupg-1.0.7 [1.2.1-r0]
|>[ebuild    UD] net-www/mozilla-1.0.1-r3 [1.2.1-r1]
|>
|>These are masked packages that I installed earlier today. These are not
|>the only masked packages that I currently have installed, but it's what
|>I've installed today. Is it a coincidence that these are packages that I
|>just installed (and there's something special about them), or could this
|>be something that recently changed in Portage (the "D" is new to me) ?
|>
|>- --
|>Robert Thomas
|>Georgia Institute of Technology
|>Email: gtg663h@mail.gatech.edu
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It isn't masked on my box (in package.mask), it's a testing package
(~arch). I emerged the new nvidia drivers and now it wants me to
downgrade them too, and they're listed above perl.

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Robert Thomas
Georgia Institute of Technology
Email: gtg663h@mail.gatech.edu
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