[gentoo-dev] How to bump down revision numbers

[gentoo-dev] How to bump down revision numbers

[maarten]

Hi,

I've been assigned bug #2380. Our 1.1.2 version of jpeg-mmx is an
unofficial, unmaintained fork so the ebuild version will need to be bumped
down to the official 0.1.4.

But even masking off the 1.1.2 ebuild doesn't make portage consider 
downgrading. Not even when I put a dependency in another package for the 
lower 0.1.4 version and emerge that one.

I was wondering: is this a bug or a feature (to ward off inadvertent 
downgrades), and is there some "official" way of doing this?

If all else fails I'll just make a new 1.1.2-r1 release, hardwire it to
use the 0.1.4 version instead, and increase the dependencies as needed in
other packages. Right?

cheers,
maarten

murphy@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to bump down revision numbers

[Lost Logic]

Have you run 'emerge -c' and checked 'qpkg -v --dups' to see that it 
doesn't still show the other version merged (if multiple versions have 
package stubs, portage doesn't necessarily know that both aren't 
co-existing).


--Brandon

maarten@belgonet.be wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've been assigned bug #2380. Our 1.1.2 version of jpeg-mmx is an
>unofficial, unmaintained fork so the ebuild version will need to be bumped
>down to the official 0.1.4.
>
>But even masking off the 1.1.2 ebuild doesn't make portage consider 
>downgrading. Not even when I put a dependency in another package for the 
>lower 0.1.4 version and emerge that one.
>
>I was wondering: is this a bug or a feature (to ward off inadvertent 
>downgrades), and is there some "official" way of doing this?
>
>If all else fails I'll just make a new 1.1.2-r1 release, hardwire it to
>use the 0.1.4 version instead, and increase the dependencies as needed in
>other packages. Right?
>
>cheers,
>maarten
>
>murphy@gentoo.org
>
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