Hello,
> > Can anybody tell me why portage constantly upgrade and then downgrade
> > GCC (versions 3.3.5 & 3.3.6) each time I "emerge -pvuD world" ???
>
> A little trick I do when this kind of stuff happens. In portage, there's a
> file called /etc/portage/package.mask. You can use it to mask packages
> that aren't in /usr/portage/profile/package.mask. It is however, useful in
> finding out why packages are downgrading. So, here's what you can do:
>
> echo "=sys-devel/gcc-3.3.5" >> /etc/portage/package.mask
Cool idea, but on better is to do the following:
echo "<sys-devel/gcc-3.3.6" >> /etc/portage/package.mask
I tried what you suggested for a different package and it wanted to downgrade
to an earlier version than the one I masked. The "<" will not let it
downgrade.
Thanks for your tip!
Sean
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