On Wed, Sep 25 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 5:24 PM, <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: >> I want to downgrade systemd from 207-r2 to 204 (highest stable). >> >> I currently have virtual/udev-206-r2 installed, which prevents >> systemd-204. >> >> OK. So I need to downgrade virtual/udev to 200. >> >> I thought >> emerge -1 =virtual/udev-200 =sys-apps/systemd-204 >> would do it. But this failed (see below) and suggested masking >> might help. >> >> So I added package.mask/systemd, which contains >> >=virtual/udev-201 >> >=sys-apps/systemd-205 >> and then issued the same emerge as above. >> But this also failed (see below). >> What incantation do I need? > > Don't mask anything, just make sure that systemd (both virtual/ and > sys-apps/) is not on package.keywords.
This system is ~amd64 (I should have said that earlier). I don't believe there is a virtual/systemd package. Did you mean virtual/udev? If so, I would create /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/systemd and put in it two lines -~sys-apps/systemd -~virtual/udev Correct? thanks, allan
