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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: emerge -Up tetex wants to downgrade
From: Patrick Kursawe <phosphan () gentoo ! org>
Date: 2003-04-30 5:50:03
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On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 05:41:39PM +0200, duchier@ps.uni-sb.de wrote:
> Patrick Kursawe <phosphan@gentoo.org> writes:
>
> >> Calculating world dependencies ...done!
> >> [ebuild UD] app-text/tetex-1.0.7-r12 [2.0-r1]
> >
> > Tetex 2.0-r1 has been removed from portage. It looks like emerge
> > tries to be on the safe side and rather downgrade than keep
> > a version it does not know about. If you upgrade to tetex-2.0.2,
> > emerge -U should no longer try to downgrade.
>
> Thank you very much! That explains it and your suggestion fixed the
> problem. However, is this really the _right_ behaviour?
>
> o portage actually knows something about tetex 2.0-r1 since it is
> emerged
>
> o --upgradeonly promises to not downgrade: regardless of whether
> there is currently an ebuild for the installed version, the
> version is known, and IMHO that fixes the semantics of
> downgrading
>
> o maybe --pretend could provide an indication that no ebuild for
> the currently installed version can be found
>
> Comments?
Nicholas, are you following this thread?
Patrick
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