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Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 15:08:06 -0500
From: Robert Thomas <gtg663h@mail.gatech.edu>
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Peter Ruskin wrote:
| On Sunday 06 Apr 2003 20:26, Robert Thomas wrote:
|
|>$ emerge -up nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx
|>
|>These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
|>
|>Calculating dependencies ...done!
|>[ebuild    U ] media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.3123-r2 [1.0.4349-r1]
|>[ebuild    UD] media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.3123 [1.0.4349]
|>
|>note that nvidia-kernel is considered to be an upgrade. Why?
|>
|
|
| Try `emerge -Uup nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx` if you want to keep the later
| ones.
|
| Peter
My point was that nvidia-kernel shows up as an upgrade, and nvidia-glx
shows up as a downgrade, even though the version numbers are the same.

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Robert Thomas
Georgia Institute of Technology
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