On 2020-08-27, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote:
> How do you determine the cause of a downgrade?
>
> Today I did "emerge --sync" and "emerge -auvNDt world" with (I think)
> no configuration changes since the last update a couple days ago, and
> now emerge wants to downgrade xorg-server from 1.20.9 to 1.20.8-r1:
It's obvious enough if you just ask it to install xorg-server-1.20.9:
emerge -av =x11-base/xorg-server-1.20.9
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# Piotr Karbowski <[email protected]> (2020-08-28)
# Temporary mask due to multiple reports of segfaults at startup, bug
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