On Tue, Apr 03 2012, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:13:43 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > >> Yes indeed I have it masked for exactly that reason. I will be going to >> a combined / + /usr when the semester ends. I use this machine for my >> lectures and assignments so prefer to break it from late may through >> august. >> >> I just tried masking the -r2 (and higher) pciutils. >> But this conflicts with a newly-required hwids-2012-0401. >> The later is required by a new usbutils-005-r1 >> >> This led me to mask >=usbutils-005-r1. >> >> Now the proposed update world leaves portage happy, but me worried. I >> haven't actually done the update world. It is reasonably to have so >> much masking? > > Yes. What has happened is that the ID data has been moved out of pciutils > and usbutils, so hwids blocks the older versions. If you want to stick > with the older udev, you need the older pciutils and this means you need > a matching version of usbutils. All this will disappear when you unmask > udev, as it did for me yesterday.
Thank you. allan gottlieb
