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From: n952162 <n952162@web.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What's the best way to force a particular version of a dependency
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2020 22:12:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <67186c99-d5be-ffa1-f280-e40c952e6cb0@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGfcS_nXe-tprpNCXDJs0ShJ1DfjdJJ3g=Z0jxQVBnwTuxHBiA@mail.gmail.com>

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On 2020-06-07 21:30, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 2:56 PM n952162 <n952162@web.de> wrote:
>
>> The emerge that I used was this:
>>
>> emerge -auDv --verbose-conflicts --changed-use --keep-going --with-bdeps=y --changed-deps --backtrack=100 @system
> Yeah, you might have to include the other packages that need readline
> if portage complains.
>
>

This, indeed, seems to have been the magic.

By specifying *both* @system and @world, two of my machines that I
worried were lost-causes are now updating - hundreds of packages, but
that's okay, I've been pulling my hair out for months.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-06-07 20:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-07 18:16 [gentoo-user] What's the best way to force a particular version of a dependency n952162
2020-06-07 18:33 ` Rich Freeman
2020-06-07 18:56   ` n952162
2020-06-07 19:30     ` Rich Freeman
2020-06-07 19:38       ` n952162
2020-06-07 21:03         ` Mark Knecht
2020-06-07 21:15           ` n952162
2020-06-07 21:20             ` Mark Knecht
2020-06-07 21:16         ` Rich Freeman
2020-06-08  9:12           ` Peter Humphrey
2020-06-08  9:18             ` Neil Bothwick
2020-06-08  9:34               ` Peter Humphrey
2020-06-07 20:12       ` n952162 [this message]
2020-06-07 21:07         ` Dale
2020-06-07 21:20           ` Rich Freeman
2020-06-07 21:33             ` Dale
2020-06-07 21:30       ` J. Roeleveld
2020-06-07 21:37         ` Dale
2020-06-07 21:45           ` n952162
2020-06-07 22:22             ` Dale

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