On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 20:33:35 +0200 "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Am Samstag 30 Juni 2012, 13:22:39 schrieb Zac Medico: > > On 06/30/2012 04:07 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > > I would like to discuss a bit more issues like: > > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423087 > > > > > > Even if there are "a lot" of packages that can cause this > > > breakage when downgraded, I think it should be prevented and > > > package managers shouldn't try to downgrade this kind of packages > > > as they will later cause a total breakage. People is not supposed > > > to know that downgrading some package system will, for example, > > > have an unusable gcc. > > > > It seems like a die in pkg_pretend would serve pretty well. > > As a comparatively simple, user-oriented workaround, since this only > happens at downgrades and these should be pretty rare, I have the > following suggestion: > > Make a portage feature that is **on by default**, which causes > portage to generate a binpkg of the version to be unmerged, in the > case of a downgrade. > > Rationale: > * if you know what you are doing, you can switch this off easily > * does not take much space since downgrades are rare > * should help our users a lot, whenever someone accidentally or > not-knowingly downgrades something critical. > > Thoughts? > That might be neat, but it would already help if you had to add --allow-downgrades or similar to emerge in case Portage wants to downgrade one or more packages. Besides preventing an accidental downgrade it would raise the awareness of the problem. > Cheers, > Andreas >
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