On 2/3/06, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, I have the following in package.keywords: > > > > > > xfce-base/libxfce4mcs > > > xfce-base/libxfcegui4 > > > xfce-base/libxfce4util > > > > > > They need to be in there for xfmedia. Whenever I run 'emerge -avDuN > > > world' portage wants to either upgrade or downgrade between the two > > > most recent ~x86 versions of the packages. Does anyone know how to > > > fix this? > > > > Use package.mask to mask out the more recent version. > > > > I have wpa_supplicant in package.keywords too. It has four ~x86 > packages that are more recent than the latest x86 package and it > doesn't get caught in an upgrade/downgrade loop. Why is this > happening with the xfce-base stuff? >
It happens because of a long-time bug in portage that doesn't handle some dependancy cases very well. In this case: pkg A depends on pkg C > version X pkg B depends on pkg C < version Y the current version of pkg C is >= Y, and X is < Y. If for example X is 1.0, Y is 1.2, and the current version is 1.3, then portage will oscillate between merging pkg C 1.0 and 1.3. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
