Duncan wrote:
"Mark Haney" <[email protected]> posted
[email protected], excerpted below, on Mon, 22 Dec 2008
14:13:27 -0500:
I've been updating my system after having some surgery and taking time
off from everything and I've noticed a funny thing. Certain packages are
requiring that I install v2.1.4.5 or portage (I'm running 2.1.6.2 now)
before updating the other packages. Why is that?
So you're saying they're asking you to downgrade? Do you have an example
and is it in the main tree or some overlay (which)?
I /think/ that'd be a bug as to date portage has been backward compatible
such that new versions should handle old ebuilds just fine, but I can't
say for sure without an example to look at the code on and see what it's
actually trying to do, where and why.
What I suspect is happening is that it's depending on a specific portage
version, say =2.1.4*, instead of a slot, which portage should support
everything at least in the main tree. IOW it shouldn't be happening in
the main tree. However, it could still be occurring in some obscure
overlay that doesn't get much testing from ~portage, maybe one that has
mostly paludis or pkgcore users?
But it's all speculation until there's an example to look at, and the
problem sounds strange enough I'm doubting I'm reading what you said
correctly in the first place.
It seems anything java related and mplayer as well. Which of course I
don't understand at all. It also might be a required portage version as
you say, but I don't know how to determine that.
octavian ~ # emerge -uav ant-core
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild UD] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.5 [2.1.6.2] USE="-build -doc
-epydoc (-selinux)" LINGUAS="-pl" 0 kB
*** Portage will stop merging at this point and reload itself,
then resume the merge.
[ebuild U ] dev-java/ant-core-1.7.1-r2 [1.7.0-r1] USE="-doc -source"
6,828 kB
---
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild UD] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.5 [2.1.6.2] USE="-build -doc
-epydoc (-selinux)" LINGUAS="-pl" 0 kB
[ebuild U ] dev-java/sun-jre-bin-1.6.0.11 [1.6.0.07] USE="X alsa
(-nsplugin) -odbc" 0 kB
----
[ebuild UD] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.5 [2.1.6.2] USE="-build -doc
-epydoc (-selinux)" LINGUAS="-pl" 0 kB
[ebuild U ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p28058-r1
[1.0_rc2_p27725-r1] USE="X a52 aac alsa arts ass%* dvd encode iconv ipv6
jpeg mad mmx mp3opengl png
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