On Sat, Jun 21 2014, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 21:20:52 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> > The moral is always look for portage trying to downgrade packages and >> > add the appropriate keyword entries when using this approach. >> > >> >> The only issue with this is that you never get back to stable that way. > > You will, it just takes a few steps with the odd package. The situation > only arises where a release is pulled before ever going stable, > generally because testing did its job and found a problem. Most packages > do not need this attention.
I see. During my "going stable" period I had this occur a few times. Some times I let portage downgrade other times and added the keyword entries other times (for me the second case involved updating not adding keyword entries) This time I am being asked to add keyword entries. I will follow your advice and not consider downgrading to the highest stable version. thanks for the advice. allan
