If emerge -u world is trying to downgrade packages, you can use /etc/portage.mask and /etc/portage.umask to set your own permanent masks -- not trashed by an rsync.
Somewhere on the forums there is a sticky topic about this relatively new emerge/portage feature. -rdg --- Doug Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 07:37, Eamon Caddigan wrote: > > > Well, as a temporary hack, I went ahead and 'injected' > the latest > > unmasked versions of Tcl/Tk (dev-lang/tcl-8.3.4 and > > dev-lang/tk-8.3.4-r1). Now, `emerge -pvuD world' > doesn't try to > > downgrade Tcl/Tk, but `emerge -pvUD world' is still > returning errors. > > This will serve me well until I install another masked > package (which > > isn't likely to happen any time soon). > > Have you considered copying the ebuilds for the ~x86 > packages you want > to a portage overlay? Then change the KEYWORDS in the > overlay ebuilds to > x86, so that they are no longer considered masked. > > Doug > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
