Re: [gentoo-user] Portage downgrading question
On Wed, April 6, 2005 1:32 pm, Scott Jones said: > Dave, > > I believe that > > echo "=app-text/acroread-7.0 ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords > > will fix your problem. Basically you put programs you want to have masked > ~x86 in the file package.keywords in the directory /etc/portage > > Scott Jones Thanks, Scott and others - this fixed the "problem"! Best Regards, Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage downgrading question
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=3 or, simply # echo '=app-text/acroread-7.0 ~x86' >> /etc/package.keywords W On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 01:12:12PM -0500, David D. Rea wrote: > Hi All- > > I needed to fill out a PDF form today, so I figured I'd try the new Adobe > Acrobat Reader 7. I did the following: > > `ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -pv acroread` > > And subsequently emerged the package without the -pv. All went well, and > acroread seems to work happily enough on my box. I'm impressed with the > software, I just wish it was open-source. > > So now I'd like to do an `emerge -pvuD world` to clear up a few GLSAs that > have come across in the last few days. Alas, this is among the output: > > [ebuild UD] app-text/acroread-5.10 [7.0] -cjk -noplugin 9,068 kB > > `man emerge` explains well enough why it's trying to downgrade acroread. > The only place I can find some semblance of a recommendation to prevent > this behavior is here: > > http://users.dslextreme.com/~craig.lawson/linux_notes/gentoo_portage.html > > Where the author suggests modifying /var/lib/portage/world so that the > package reads: > > >=app-text/acroread-7.0 > > But doing this doesn't change emerge's behavior when doing an `emerge > -pvuD world`. It still tries to downgrade acroread. > > ??? > > Thanks, > Dave > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- * Address: 45 Spelman Hall, Princeton University 08544 * * Phone: x68958 AIM: AngularJerk* *E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]From: sep.dynalias.net * Why did the math professor name his dog Cauchy? Because he left a residue at every pole! Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1 day, 22:06 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage downgrading question
* David D. Rea > The only place I can find some semblance of a recommendation to prevent > this behavior is here: > > http://users.dslextreme.com/~craig.lawson/linux_notes/gentoo_portage.html Read the section on Portage in the Gentoo Handbook and the portage man-page. The handbook section that deals with this is here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=3 -- Steingrim Dovland. Oslo, Norway. This behaviour is by design. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage downgrading question
On Apr 6, 2005 1:12 PM, David D. Rea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hi All-I needed to fill out a PDF form today, so I figured I'd try the new AdobeAcrobat Reader 7. I did the following:`ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -pv acroread`And subsequently emerged the package without the -pv. All went well, andacroread seems to work happily enough on my box. I'm impressed with thesoftware, I just wish it was open-source.So now I'd like to do an `emerge -pvuD world` to clear up a few GLSAs thathave come across in the last few days. Alas, this is among the output:[ebuild UD] app-text/acroread-5.10 [7.0] -cjk -noplugin 9,068 kB`man emerge` explains well enough why it's trying to downgrade acroread.The only place I can find some semblance of a recommendation to preventthis behavior is here:http://users.dslextreme.com/~craig.lawson/linux_notes/gentoo_portage.htmlWhere the author suggests modifying /var/lib/portage/world so that thepackage reads:>=app-text/acroread-7.0But doing this doesn't change emerge's behavior when doing an `emerge-pvuD world`. It still tries to downgrade acroread.???Thanks,Dave--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing listDave, I believe that echo "=app-text/acroread-7.0 ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords will fix your problem. Basically you put programs you want to have masked ~x86 in the file package.keywords in the directory /etc/portage Scott Jones
