-- Eric Livingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thusly: > I'm using the ~x86 keyword and have been for months. I routinely > execute 'emerge -u --deep world' to keep things up to date. > > Recently, 'emerge -pu --deep world' has started to tell me it wants to > downgrade some packages!? Specifically, it wants to perform the > following: <snip> > Note that it wants to downgrade baselayout, portage, and > docbook-xml-dtd. Why? I don't really care about docbook-xml-dtd, but > I am nervous about portage and very nervous about baselayout. > > What should I do? Should I let it do this? Why does it want to?
I'm just speculating, but with Portage it's presumably because of some problems which have cropped up with the new version screwing up gcc-config (some discussion of this has gone on on gentoo-dev). Either that or because it depends on baselayout-1.8.6.2 (bugs 15982, 16047, 16089). Baselayout was because of some problems which were introduced with the recent 1.8.6.2 update. Be very careful with baselayout; you _must_ do etc-update before rebooting (going either 1.8.5.8 -> 1.8.6.2 or back again), although I don't recall which files are the important ones. Details at <http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15175>. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
