On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 16:43, Ernie Schroder wrote:
> Have you tried emerge -Up world? this will upgrade only. I use it 
> because of my nvidia drivers.

Yes I have and get the error lower down in the email.  It seems
fundamentally flawed since if you have no masked packages installed it
works fine but since I had unstable alsa installed it threw up errors
everywhere.

> On Thursday 20 March 2003 11:11 am, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I would like to raise the following quibbles with portage.  When I
> > say world file below I am referring to /var/cache/edb/world.
> >
> > (1) Certain packages remain in world file even when uninstalled.
> > (2) Certain packages are installed but not added to world file.
> >
> > E.g. If I install evolution and that installs mozilla as a dependency
> > then mozilla is not put in world file.
> >
> > (3) Sometimes pinning an item in world file like
> > '>=net-www/mozilla-1.3' does not stop an 'emerge -up -deep world'
> > from downgrading it because another package like evolution wants an
> > older version.
> >
> > (4) Injecting stubs for packages although prevents downgrading can
> > get messy if you find yourself injecting a lot of them and it can be
> > hard to keep track of.  Is there a way to list all stubs?
> >
> > (5) Also, how do you remove a stub?  Is it by 'emerge -C'
> > <category>/<package>-<version>-<release>?
> >
> > Since I'm using some unstable and rest stable packages the issue of
> > downgrading is making life troublesome for me.  It'd be interesting
> > to hear how the rest of you deal with them.  I don't wish to run on
> > the unstable tree but just wish to install some of the unstable
> > packages. Incidentally, if I use the -U (upgrade only) flag I get the
> > following error.
> >
> > ----
> > Calculating world dependencies \
> > !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy ">=media-libs/alsa-lib-0.9.1" have
> > been masked.
> > !!!    (dependency required by "media-sound/alsa-utils-0.9.1"
> > [ebuild])
> >
> > !!! Problem with ebuild media-sound/alsa-utils-0.9.1
> > !!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem.
> >
> > !!! Depgraph creation failed.
> > ----
> >
> > My emerge info is given below.
> >
> > --
> > Dhruba Bandopadhyay
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r2)
> > =================================================================
> > System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz
> > GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.linux.no/
> > http://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/
> > http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ "
> > CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config
> > /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
> > /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config"
> > CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
> > PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
> > DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
> > PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
> > PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
> > PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
> > USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt cups encode gif jpeg libg++ libwww
> > mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2
> > xmms xv zlib gtkhtml gdbm berkdb slang readline arts bonobo svga java
> > guile X sdl gpm tcpd pam ssl perl python imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk qt
> > kde motif opengl aalib acpi alsa cdr directfb dvd esd fbcon gtk2 imap
> > mozilla moznoirc moznomail moznocompose moznoxft mozsvg nas sse tcltk
> > tiff usb xml"
> > COMPILER="gcc3"
> > CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
> > CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer
> > -fprefetch-loop-arrays -falign-functions=4 -funroll-loops -ffast-math
> > -fforce-addr"
> > CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer
> > -fprefetch-loop-arrays -falign-functions=4 -funroll-loops -ffast-math
> > -fforce-addr"
> > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
> > MAKEOPTS="-j4"
> > AUTOCLEAN="yes"
> > SYNC="rsync://rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
> > FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
> >
> >
> > --
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