I agree that -U will work, howerver, it still doesn't seem to fix the underlying 
problem 
of telling portage that package-2.3.4 is what is supposed to be on a system now and 
not the blessed package-1.2.3. 
 
The only way I've found to fix this is to go into /var/edb and change the world file 
to 
say: 
 
>=package-2.3.4 
 
It seems there should be a way in /etc/portage to make this happen without having to 
muck with portages idea of what is in world.  Maybe it's just me, but I'd like to edit 
a 
file somewhere to tell portage that I've emerged a thing or two that aren't standard 
and that is the way my particular system is now without having to resort to -U, since 
-U will miss any regressions in what should be stable everywhere else. (kportage 
comes to mind...I think it just went through a 'blessed' regression from 0.7 to 0.6.1, 
this would be missed by -U) 
 
-Rob 
 
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 20:11:01 -0700, el lodger wrote 
> On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 20:51:08 -0600 
> Brian Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
>  
> > I create package.unmask and add this line to it (trying to prevent 
> > downgrade of pan): 
> >  
> > >=net-news/pan-0.14.0 
> >  
> > and then I do: 
> >  
> > # emerge -Duvlp world 
>  
> try emerge -DUvlp world 
>  
>  --upgradeonly (-U short option) 
>               Updates packages, but excludes updates that would  
> result in a              lower version of the package being  
> installed. SLOTs are              considered at a basic level. 
>  
>  try emerge -DUvlp world  
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