From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MGFix-00014G-7K for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:11:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 661E7E0058; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:11:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f224.google.com (mail-ew0-f224.google.com [209.85.219.224]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 296FAE0058 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:11:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy24 with SMTP id 24so109652ewy.34 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:11:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=X0+YybrAj5aAAQ3Xjq7SyrFbg3ELRchp8hvs4GL/N6I=; b=PRczvV53OsOEy9LeXqUWWImEgQBxYS4BQtSdcpRfRiHBE0MeLuE7C8CngJlCPcBQ30 /nH6GyH030bnyrR3Oe7/D941FBErdfIZfLrBKO2CD+Qtmjj/UWiBNy46y+MwTfri55hI eoN2yt/glecnN7ummFOHQ5glgeoK9GhCN11P0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=JXT3GUN6Dvl34ihVdfmVS+9k2U7/JH1yeMo2IKCkly23Zu8b/GnNG+kl6FGglzdNNr +4TZUFdIt+q2d+ya90wP4xqtit5jfHojVfhsRs7ovc4KCF07447HIG+DS48tYY+TwEyi 9OaLy5o2dH5ecjAVn56XVWAMS/h9kcThNmYDo= Received: by 10.210.79.3 with SMTP id c3mr4913122ebb.24.1245085916600; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:11:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-123-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.123]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm120503eyh.50.2009.06.15.10.11.55 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:11:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About procmail and getline Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:10:21 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.2.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <200906150934.09553.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <38DBB4E9-0CB6-4FF7-BF83-DD22C2970A43@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <38DBB4E9-0CB6-4FF7-BF83-DD22C2970A43@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906151910.21201.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: d47fc498-40d2-4a63-be0a-78f55b961cfd X-Archives-Hash: 9628efa4a7cdc09f946ef12b49924ef6 On Monday 15 June 2009 18:50:58 Stroller wrote: > On 15 Jun 2009, at 08:34, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > ... > > Much more work than it's worth. It's easier to reinstall. > > ... > > There was a recent thread on this, and the OP eventually decided to > > write a > > script that listed every package he had and copy this to > > package.mask (with > > ">" in front of course), then just wait for everything in stable to > > catch up. > > I considered that to be an easy & straight-forward way to undertake > the "downgrade". > > I'm not sure if every installed package was marked in this way or > merely every package in world? Mark everything. Otherwise you end up with with 150 packages in world at stable, and the other 850 packages which are DEPs at unstable. And that's where all hell breaks loose. Whether a dep is installed arch or ~arch depends only on ACCEPT_KEYWORDS and explicit directives in /etc/portage/*, and nothing to do with the package that pulled it in (exception: a package that defines a version or range of versions in it's DEPENDS) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com