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 1Ou9ps-0003D7-CH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:04:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F292E0922 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:04:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com (mail-vw0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2758E083C for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:49:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws15 with SMTP id 15so3162400vws.40 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:49:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Ymo69OpEuT/qnnS/BFFZubWaRssIsITABpPgeUM1PIU=; b=GuqysdslTQSQIlhuhEQhmT/v+YZmYZ75061PVtVKgn164LauEuWfJDP3MXQ8r19c/u Gs9zAR5sB/9SoUrO1MSoCinaevi+9Ea7RlhFHxtNxBlMsIu+2gyAMjVUAy5QaE3W5/Cg XtWI+cnViiX3mWJXAPdYQTIP1UubgOjOaOuqM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=PcUYatXWSXvhTxXISRUFgDorGWJl3Y5OcdbxQmRJDh48ezgKu2FwE1/c9kHcEwwodZ Is93sD19KNv8k/BfOHitqlJWP99kSnrQ1qYAS6I+nch5NUXcThfYv0yZOkTl7FKko9Cy 6o6LPnSBXmehaCedEBnmeGy9UdUNyeuFUgq5w= Received: by 10.220.122.203 with SMTP id m11mr555259vcr.258.1284148181529; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:49:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-95-150-248.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.150.248]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r35sm1976335vbw.7.2010.09.10.12.49.39 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:49:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C8A8BD2.6050801@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:49:38 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.12) Gecko/20100909 Gentoo/2.0.7 SeaMonkey/2.0.7 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays & package.mask References: <4C8A6A12.2090905@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a46b9ecb-e3ac-4a83-9e62-7f25b1e6f190 X-Archives-Hash: 8c069887ae05db53261ec73d162b7331 Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > On 10 September 2010 10:25, Dale wrote: > >> Do you have the package listed in the unmask or keyword file? If so, it >> ignores the mask file. Actually, I think it reads mask first then the >> others. >> > Ah! Yes, I do. > > That explains why package.mask is being ignored, I guess, but I can't > think of a way yet to prevent the downgrade. Removing from > package.unmask just creates errors and adding 4.5.1-r1 didn't seem to > have any effect. Any ideas? > > Sounds like some things depend on that version being installed. You may just have to go through them one by one and add them to the appropriate files. I did this a few days ago with qt. It's not fun but I don't know of a better way. You may want to check into autounmask for future use. At least that way you can just remove things that you no longer need, want or want to downgrade for some reason. Dale :-) :-)