From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15522 invoked by uid 1002); 26 Oct 2003 06:02:13 -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 1520 invoked from network); 26 Oct 2003 06:02:12 -0000 Message-ID: <3F9CB4B2.7000705@technaut.darktalker.net> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 00:01:22 -0600 From: Andrew Gaffney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20031018 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gentoo Dev References: <1067103837.16419.1.camel@neferteti> <3F9AB9C4.70506@technaut.darktalker.net> <20031025200632.GA5274@whitestar> In-Reply-To: <20031025200632.GA5274@whitestar> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.7.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] wxGTK {up|down}grade loop X-Archives-Salt: ca9887ec-6ffa-4165-b534-5ace6a49f631 X-Archives-Hash: ac6e75e6020a7356ce7932e7d3fa400a 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 >> >> >>-- >>gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Andrew Gaffney -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list