Re: [gentoo-dev] About trying to prevent downgrades of packages that cause system breakage

2012-07-07 Thread Ralph Sennhauser
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 13:01:52 -0700 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: On 06/30/2012 12:42 PM, Ralph Sennhauser wrote: That might be neat, but it would already help if you had to add --allow-downgrades or similar to emerge in case Portage wants to downgrade one or more packages. Besides

[gentoo-dev] About trying to prevent downgrades of packages that cause system breakage

2012-06-30 Thread Pacho Ramos
I would like to discuss a bit more issues like: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423087 Even if there are a lot of packages that can cause this breakage when downgraded, I think it should be prevented and package managers shouldn't try to downgrade this kind of packages as they will later

Re: [gentoo-dev] About trying to prevent downgrades of packages that cause system breakage

2012-06-30 Thread Zac Medico
On 06/30/2012 04:07 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: I would like to discuss a bit more issues like: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423087 Even if there are a lot of packages that can cause this breakage when downgraded, I think it should be prevented and package managers shouldn't try to

Re: [gentoo-dev] About trying to prevent downgrades of packages that cause system breakage

2012-06-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 30 June 2012 07:22:39 Zac Medico wrote: On 06/30/2012 04:07 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: I would like to discuss a bit more issues like: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423087 Even if there are a lot of packages that can cause this breakage when downgraded, I think it

Re: [gentoo-dev] About trying to prevent downgrades of packages that cause system breakage

2012-06-30 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 30/06/12 11:16 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Saturday 30 June 2012 07:22:39 Zac Medico wrote: On 06/30/2012 04:07 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: I would like to discuss a bit more issues like: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423087 Even if

Re: [gentoo-dev] About trying to prevent downgrades of packages that cause system breakage

2012-06-30 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 30-06-2012 a las 13:17 -0400, Ian Stakenvicius escribió: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 30/06/12 11:16 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Saturday 30 June 2012 07:22:39 Zac Medico wrote: On 06/30/2012 04:07 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: I would like to discuss a bit more

Re: [gentoo-dev] About trying to prevent downgrades of packages that cause system breakage

2012-06-30 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 30/06/12 01:30 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: El sáb, 30-06-2012 a las 13:17 -0400, Ian Stakenvicius escribió: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 30/06/12 11:16 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Saturday 30 June 2012 07:22:39 Zac Medico

Re: [gentoo-dev] About trying to prevent downgrades of packages that cause system breakage

2012-06-30 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 30-06-2012 a las 13:46 -0400, Ian Stakenvicius escribió: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 30/06/12 01:30 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: El sáb, 30-06-2012 a las 13:17 -0400, Ian Stakenvicius escribió: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 30/06/12 11:16

Re: [gentoo-dev] About trying to prevent downgrades of packages that cause system breakage

2012-06-30 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Samstag 30 Juni 2012, 13:22:39 schrieb Zac Medico: On 06/30/2012 04:07 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: I would like to discuss a bit more issues like: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423087 Even if there are a lot of packages that can cause this breakage when downgraded, I think it

Re: [gentoo-dev] About trying to prevent downgrades of packages that cause system breakage

2012-06-30 Thread Ralph Sennhauser
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 20:33:35 +0200 Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: Am Samstag 30 Juni 2012, 13:22:39 schrieb Zac Medico: On 06/30/2012 04:07 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: I would like to discuss a bit more issues like: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423087 Even if

Re: [gentoo-dev] About trying to prevent downgrades of packages that cause system breakage

2012-06-30 Thread Zac Medico
On 06/30/2012 12:42 PM, Ralph Sennhauser wrote: That might be neat, but it would already help if you had to add --allow-downgrades or similar to emerge in case Portage wants to downgrade one or more packages. Besides preventing an accidental downgrade it would raise the awareness of the

Re: [gentoo-dev] About trying to prevent downgrades of packages that cause system breakage

2012-06-30 Thread Zac Medico
On 06/30/2012 11:33 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: Am Samstag 30 Juni 2012, 13:22:39 schrieb Zac Medico: On 06/30/2012 04:07 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: I would like to discuss a bit more issues like: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423087 Even if there are a lot of packages that can cause