Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 09:47, Eamon Caddigan wrote:
>> Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 
>> Yeah, I realize I wasn't very clear: Tcl and Tk are the only masked
>> packages on my system. Trying:
>> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -pvu tcl tk
>> Indicates that I have the latest versions installed. This won't help
>> with updating world, unfortunately. I am loathe to update world using
>> "~x86" -- really, I just want to find out which packages have newer
>> stable versions.
>> 
>> I imagine this wouldn't be a problem if the ebuilds for Tcl/Tk were
>> slot-aware. I *could* downgrade to 8.3.4, and then install 8.4 by hand
>> in /usr/local, but I really don't want to do that.. 
> 
> Try "U" instead of "u", like this:
> 
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -pvU tcl tk
> 
> As I understand it, mixing "unstable", i.e. x86 packages, with regular
> can confuse emerge/portage. The "u" flag will attempt to actually
> downgrade you. The "U" flag won't.

Right, but since I already have the latest (unstable) versions of
Tcl/Tk, upgrading/updating them doesn't change anything. My problem is
that emerge is returning errors when I try to update world with the
upgradeonly flag. 

-Eamon


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