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 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
