On Thursday 03 February 2005 02:06 am, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 18:44, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 18:30:28 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > Using -> www-proxy/squid-2.5.7-r2 > > > --- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.mask: > > > www-proxy/squid-2.5.7-r2 > > > > > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > > > > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > > > [ebuild U ] www-proxy/squid-2.5.7-r4 [2.5.7-r2 > > > > Read the previous replies again. you already have 2.5.7-r2 you don't > > want to mask that, you want to mask everything greater than it. The > > line is package.mask should be ">www-proxy/squid-2.5.7-r2". Putting an > > = after the > as you first did masks the current version too. Having > > no >, < or = is illegal. > > Putting : > >www-proxy/squid-2.5.7
Which masks any version greater than (>) 2.5.7, one of which you have intalled (2.5.7-r2). > [ebuild UD] www-proxy/squid-2.5.6-r3 [2.5.7-r2] > > It wants to Downgrade to 2.5.6 > > using > > >=www-proxy/squid-2.5.7-r2 Which masks any version greater than (>) *or equal to (=)* (>=) 2.5.7-r2, one of which you have installed (2.5.7-r2) > [ebuild UD] www-proxy/squid-2.5.6-r3 [2.5.7-r2] > > It _still_ wants to downgrade.. Why not try exactly what I said: take your existing mask ">=www-proxy/squid-2.5.7-r2" and remove the '=', resulting in ">www-proxy/squid-2.5.7-r2"? /drunk -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- [email protected] mailing list
