From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DEB813881D for ; Sat, 26 Sep 2015 20:59:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8733921C039; Sat, 26 Sep 2015 20:59:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D2AB21C002 for ; Sat, 26 Sep 2015 20:58:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id C787C194FC6 for ; Sat, 26 Sep 2015 21:58:57 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 21:58:52 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] update problems Message-ID: <20150926215852.43eb2247@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <5606E0E9.50407@gmail.com> References: <87eghucic9.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> <55FDBE16.1070404@gmail.com> <874mipcgm9.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> <2096705.7mWRWRVp3b@eve> <874mihe36v.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> <20150926174728.06d4d07e@digimed.co.uk> <5606E0E9.50407@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.12.0-88-gd46367 (GTK+ 2.24.28; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/wUxjqY64SpdJcLhZiEKxc.O"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 3c5152d6-7dfd-4403-aa49-0e76ef1e307a X-Archives-Hash: fedb506edfed7e854dd218737d9b3ba8 --Sig_/wUxjqY64SpdJcLhZiEKxc.O Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 20:16:09 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Portage can't unwind the most recent merges so you have to rely on a > side-effect - hoping that portage will notice your package of X isn't in > the current tree then will downgrade it to one that is. You can use app-portage/demerge for this. It's main limitation is that it can try to emerge packages no longer in the tree, but if you rewind the tree to a similar date that should go away. --=20 Neil Bothwick Hell: Filling out the paperwork to get into Heaven. --Sig_/wUxjqY64SpdJcLhZiEKxc.O Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlYHBwwACgkQum4al0N1GQPUqACdEOQRiMoeKOH0IO2mITH05LMD dagAnjRb9X8vxu7rvL6AhIaClKlv87YV =QXY4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/wUxjqY64SpdJcLhZiEKxc.O--