Re: [gentoo-dev] wxGTK {up|down}grade loop

[Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@technaut.darktalker.net>]

I wouldn't recommend this approach. This will probably break whatever package depends on 
the older version of the flip-flopping package.

Paul Fraser wrote:
> You could use emerge -UDp instead, which will tell Portage to ignore any downgrades that may occur, and only show packages that will actually be updated.
> 
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 12:58:28PM -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> 
>>Ruben Vermeersch wrote:
>>
>>>Ok, here's what's bugging me lately:
>>>
>>>       ruben@neferteti ruben $ emerge -uDp world
>>>       
>>>       These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
>>>       
>>>       Calculating world dependencies ...done!
>>>       [ebuild     U ] x11-libs/wxGTK-2.4.1-r1 [2.4.0] 
>>>
>>>After updating wxGTK, i stumble upon this:
>>>
>>>       neferteti ruben #  emerge -uDp world
>>>       
>>>       These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
>>>       
>>>       Calculating world dependencies ...done!
>>>       [ebuild     UD] x11-libs/wxGTK-2.4.0 [2.4.1-r1] 
>>>       
>>>Something tells me this ain't normal behaviour :)
>>
>>I've seen this kind of thing a few times before, most notably with avifile 
>>and drip. In this case, there is an update available for wxGTK, so portage 
>>upgrades it. Unfortunately, there is some program installed that requires 
>>on a version of wxGTK <=2.4.0, so portage downgrades it to not break the 
>>other program. I consider this behavior a portage bug, but as far as I 
>>know, there is currently no easy way to prevent this from happening.
>>
>>-- 
>>Andrew Gaffney
>>
>>
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