Am Mittwoch, 18. April 2007 schrieb ext Bob McDonald: > Recently (well, o.k. a while ago) I upgraded qt-3 to qt-3.3.8. Upon my > next world upgrade, paludis indicated that qt-3.3.8 was to be downgraded > to 3.3.6. Being the resourceful kind of guy that I am, I simply added > the following to the package_mask.conf file: > > <x11-libs/qt-3.3.8 > > Viola! My issues went away. A bit further down the road, qt-3.3.8-r1 > (and later -r2) appeared in the update list. After the -r1 upgrade, the > next world upgrade indicated that qt-3.3.8-r1 was to be downgraded to > qt-3.3.8. Ah, I thought. I'll simply change my package mask to: > > <=x11-libs/qt-3.3.8 > > Although this does prevent the downgrade, it also elicits loads of > warnings from various components which depend on qt-3.3.8. i.e.: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [WARNING] In program paludis -pi world > --dl-new-slots as-needed: > ... When performing install action from command line: > ... When executing install task: > ... When adding PackageDepSpec 'net-irc/konversation': > ... When adding installed package > 'net-irc/konversation-1.0.1-r1::installed': > ... Ignoring run dependencies due to exception 'Error searching for > '=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=| >=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=x11-libs/qt-3.3.8,3.3.6-r5,3.3.6-r4,3.3.6-r3,3.3. >6-r2,3.3.6-r1,3.3.6,3.3.5-r1,3.3.5,3.3.4-r9,3.3.4-r8,3.3.4-r7,3.3.4-r6,3.3 >.4-r5,3.3.4-r4,3.3.4-r3,3.3.4-r2,3.3.4-r1,3.3.4,3.3.3-r3,3.3.3-r2,3.3.3-r1 >,3.3.3,3.3.2,3.3.1-r2,3.3.1-r1,3.3.1,3.3.0-r1,3.3.0,3.2.3-r1,3.2.3,3.2.2-r >1,3.2.2,3.2.1-r2,3.2.1-r1,3.2.1,3.2.0,3.1.2-r4,3.1.2-r3,3.1.2-r2,3.1.2-r1, >3.1.2,3.1.1-r2,3.1.1-r1,3.1.1,3.1.0-r3,3.1.0-r2,3.1.0-r1,3.1.0': no > available versions' (paludis::AllMaskedError) > > This even though net-irc/konversion-1.0.1-r1 is not being updated or > installed at this time. > > WTF? It would seem as though once we've made the jump from a version of > software to a higher version of software that a downgrade would only > occur if the higher version of software were package masked or > something. I know there is ongoing debate about how the standards for > versioning are and/or have been implemented/enforced. Is my > understanding of the process correct or am I just being thick? > > How can I achieve peaceful paludis world upgrades without changing > package masks and/or having to see all of the warnings every time?
You can use "--dl-downgrade warning" and reinstall the package requesting
the downgrade. Note that this is an iterative process.
HTH...
Dirk
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