Clemente Aguiar posted
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
excerpted below, on Sat, 28 Jan 2006 15:10:20 +0000:
>
> A few weeks ago, with the installation of kde, I emerged hal, dbus and
> ivan.
>
> I update the system regularly with:
>
> emerge -uD world
>
> Recently this command resulted in an updated hal and dbus.
>
> But now when I "pretend" to update it wants to downgrade these two
> packages again, and I found that the culprit is ivman.
>
> # emerge -uDp --tree world
>
> These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order:
>
> Calculating world dependencies ...done!
> [nomerge ] sys-apps/ivman-0.5_pre2
> [ebuild UD] sys-apps/hal-0.4.8 [0.5.5.1-r3]
> [ebuild UD] sys-apps/dbus-0.23.4-r1 [0.60-r3]
>
> What can I do to solve this upgrade/downgrade "problem"?
$grep hal /p/sys-apps/ivman/ivman-0.5_pre2.ebuild
=sys-apps/hal-0.4*"
einfo "existing rules, replace %m with \$hal.volume.mount_point\$ and"
einfo "replace %d with \$hal.block.device\$. Individual users may also"
That's the problem right there. It's requiring hal-0.4* specifically, no
higher, and you have higher so it wants to downgrade you.
You may wish to consider adding sys-apps/ivman to package.keywords as
~amd64. This will give you the 0.6.8 version, which deps on
>=sys-apps/hal-0.4.0. However, a quick grep reveals the following warning
in the ebuild, so be aware:
if has_version "<sys-apps/hal-0.5.0"; then
einfo "Ivman was built against HAL 0.4.x. If you later upgrade
to HAL 0.5,"
einfo "you must re-merge Ivman."
echo
else
einfo "Ivman was built against HAL 0.5.x. If you later
downgrade to HAL 0.4,"
einfo "you must re-merge Ivman."
echo
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