[gentoo-user] I don't want portage to update Libreoffice......

[gentoo-user] I don't want portage to update Libreoffice......

[Andrew Lowe]

Hi all,
	As per usual an update of Libre Office is failing and causing all sorts 
of build troubles. I have an install, the previous version,  of Libre 
Office working so how do I stop portage from trying to update to the latest.

"Emerge --search libreoffice"

	reports

"Latest version installed: 4.1.0.1".

	In turn my /etc/portage/package.mask contains the line

 >app-office/libreoffice-4.1.0.1

	or

 >=app-office/libreoffice-4.1.0.1

	This results in portage wanting to downgrade libreoffice

[ebuild     UD ] app-office/libreoffice-4.0.4.2 [4.1.0.1]

What do I have to fiddle so that portage won't want to upgrade 
libreoffice? This is stopping my "-NuD world" from completing so I need 
to suppress libreoffice for the time being and come back to it later.

	Any thoughts, greatly appreciated,

		Andrew

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't want portage to update Libreoffice......

[András Csányi]

On 10 August 2013 18:27, Andrew Lowe <agl@wht.com.au> wrote:
> Hi all,
>         As per usual an update of Libre Office is failing and causing all
> sorts of build troubles. I have an install, the previous version,  of Libre
> Office working so how do I stop portage from trying to update to the latest.

Hi Andrew,

put the latest version into package.mask something like this:
>=app-office/libreoffice-latest-version

On the other hand, as you described you have version 4.1.0.1, but I
cannot see it in my portage tree, find it below. You would like to
keep this, I mean 4.1.0.1 version?

[I] app-office/libreoffice
     Available versions:  4.0.4.2 **4.0.9999 (~)4.1.0.4{tbz2}
**4.1.9999 **9999-r2


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Re: [gentoo-user] I don't want portage to update Libreoffice......

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 00:27:56 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote:

> 	In turn my /etc/portage/package.mask contains the line
> 
>  >app-office/libreoffice-4.1.0.1  
> 
> 	or
> 
>  >=app-office/libreoffice-4.1.0.1  
> 
> 	This results in portage wanting to downgrade libreoffice
> 
> [ebuild     UD ] app-office/libreoffice-4.0.4.2 [4.1.0.1]
> 
> What do I have to fiddle so that portage won't want to upgrade 
> libreoffice? This is stopping my "-NuD world" from completing so I need 
> to suppress libreoffice for the time being and come back to it later.

4.1.0.1 is no longer in the portage tree, so 4.0.4.2 is the highest
version that fulfils your settings. The solution is to copy the ebuild
from /var/db/pkg into your local overlay (you will have to set one up if
not already done so) which will keep portage happy.


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Re: [gentoo-user] I don't want portage to update Libreoffice......

[Daniel Frey]

On 08/10/2013 09:27 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote:
> Hi all,
>     As per usual an update of Libre Office is failing and causing all
> sorts of build troubles. I have an install, the previous version,  of
> Libre Office working so how do I stop portage from trying to update to
> the latest.
> 
> 
> [ebuild     UD ] app-office/libreoffice-4.0.4.2 [4.1.0.1]
> 
> What do I have to fiddle so that portage won't want to upgrade
> libreoffice? This is stopping my "-NuD world" from completing so I need
> to suppress libreoffice for the time being and come back to it later.
> 
>     Any thoughts, greatly appreciated,
> 
>         Andrew
> 

You can use the --exclude parameter (I think?) and it will ignore it for
the one command, then after everything is updated you can solve it
further. Try:

emerge --exclude app-office/libreoffice -NuD world

This is not a permanent change but it will allow you to complete your
update, then you can set the masking afterwards.

Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't want portage to update Libreoffice......

[Andrew Lowe]

On 08/11/13 01:16, Daniel Frey wrote:
> On 08/10/2013 09:27 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>      As per usual an update of Libre Office is failing and causing all
>> sorts of build troubles. I have an install, the previous version,  of
>> Libre Office working so how do I stop portage from trying to update to
>> the latest.
>>
>>
>> [ebuild     UD ] app-office/libreoffice-4.0.4.2 [4.1.0.1]
>>
>> What do I have to fiddle so that portage won't want to upgrade
>> libreoffice? This is stopping my "-NuD world" from completing so I need
>> to suppress libreoffice for the time being and come back to it later.
>>
>>      Any thoughts, greatly appreciated,
>>
>>          Andrew
>>
>
> You can use the --exclude parameter (I think?) and it will ignore it for
> the one command, then after everything is updated you can solve it
> further. Try:
>
> emerge --exclude app-office/libreoffice -NuD world
>
> This is not a permanent change but it will allow you to complete your
> update, then you can set the masking afterwards.
>
> Dan
>
>
It worked. Thanks. Now to get this all sorted out and Libre Office to 
build at leisure.

	Andrew

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't want portage to update Libreoffice......

[Paul Klos]

Op dinsdag 13 augustus 2013 01:54:00 schreef Andrew Lowe:
> On 08/11/13 01:16, Daniel Frey wrote:
> > On 08/10/2013 09:27 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>      As per usual an update of Libre Office is failing and causing all
> >> sorts of build troubles. I have an install, the previous version,  of
> >> Libre Office working so how do I stop portage from trying to update to
> >> the latest.
> >>
> >>
> >> [ebuild     UD ] app-office/libreoffice-4.0.4.2 [4.1.0.1]
> >>
> >> What do I have to fiddle so that portage won't want to upgrade
> >> libreoffice? This is stopping my "-NuD world" from completing so I need
> >> to suppress libreoffice for the time being and come back to it later.
> >>
> >>      Any thoughts, greatly appreciated,
> >>
> >>          Andrew
> >>
> >
> > You can use the --exclude parameter (I think?) and it will ignore it for
> > the one command, then after everything is updated you can solve it
> > further. Try:
> >
> > emerge --exclude app-office/libreoffice -NuD world
> >
> > This is not a permanent change but it will allow you to complete your
> > update, then you can set the masking afterwards.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >
> It worked. Thanks. Now to get this all sorted out and Libre Office to 
> build at leisure.
> 
> 	Andrew
> 
FWIW, I had initially unmasked a bunch of stuff (suggested by portage) to get the first 4.x version of LO to compile. Upgrading to 4.0.4.2 only worked after I had upgraded boost and boost-build from 1.52 to 1.53. Portage had nothing to say about it, the build just failed with some weird boost errors.

Cheers

Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't want portage to update Libreoffice......

[Alan McKinnon]

On 12/08/2013 20:05, Paul Klos wrote:
> Op dinsdag 13 augustus 2013 01:54:00 schreef Andrew Lowe:
>> On 08/11/13 01:16, Daniel Frey wrote:
>>> On 08/10/2013 09:27 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>      As per usual an update of Libre Office is failing and causing all
>>>> sorts of build troubles. I have an install, the previous version,  of
>>>> Libre Office working so how do I stop portage from trying to update to
>>>> the latest.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [ebuild     UD ] app-office/libreoffice-4.0.4.2 [4.1.0.1]
>>>>
>>>> What do I have to fiddle so that portage won't want to upgrade
>>>> libreoffice? This is stopping my "-NuD world" from completing so I need
>>>> to suppress libreoffice for the time being and come back to it later.
>>>>
>>>>      Any thoughts, greatly appreciated,
>>>>
>>>>          Andrew
>>>>
>>>
>>> You can use the --exclude parameter (I think?) and it will ignore it for
>>> the one command, then after everything is updated you can solve it
>>> further. Try:
>>>
>>> emerge --exclude app-office/libreoffice -NuD world
>>>
>>> This is not a permanent change but it will allow you to complete your
>>> update, then you can set the masking afterwards.
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>>
>> It worked. Thanks. Now to get this all sorted out and Libre Office to 
>> build at leisure.
>>
>> 	Andrew
>>
> FWIW, I had initially unmasked a bunch of stuff (suggested by portage) to get the first 4.x version of LO to compile. Upgrading to 4.0.4.2 only worked after I had upgraded boost and boost-build from 1.52 to 1.53. Portage had nothing to say about it, the build just failed with some weird boost errors.


You should log that as a bug, chances are good the devs are not aware of
it. They can't test every combination and so rely on us users to report
combinations shown to not work.


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