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midnightrambler
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 Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2003 11:13 pm Post subject: emerge -U does downgrading?? |
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Why is this? I believe that emerge -U does NOT downgrade anything. It also seems that I have a version of Portage that is not available yet through Portage itsself 
root@hq alex # emerge -Up portage
>>> --upgradeonly implies --update... adding --update to options.
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild N ] sys-apps/coreutils-5.0-r3
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/debianutils-1.16.7-r3 [1.16.7-r2]
[ebuild UD] sys-apps/portage-2.0.49-r3 [2.0.49-r4]
What does this mean? I have the Athlon XP Gentoo 1.4 CDs dated 2003-9-11...
Greetz
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Genone
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 12:08 am Post subject: |
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| -U will still downgrade in some cases, e.g. if the ebuild for a installed version is no longer available but there is one for a lower version like in your portage case. |
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midnightrambler
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 12:17 am Post subject: |
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| Genone wrote: | | -U will still downgrade in some cases, e.g. if the ebuild for a installed version is no longer available but there is one for a lower version like in your portage case. |
OK but why is there no ebuild for my Portage version or for a version greater than my version? Strange.... 
So do i get it right if i assume that it is not neccessary to update (that is in my case: downgrade) Portage in my case because i already have a version newer than anything else?
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Genone
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 12:23 am Post subject: |
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| AFAIK -r4 wasn't in stable except on the 1.4.1 release cds, and as the most recent unstable version is -r6 the old version got removed. You don't need to down- or upgrade portage, but it wouldn't hurt either as the differences are very small. |
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Lion
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| Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 9:16 am Post subject: |
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| Genone wrote: | | -U will still downgrade in some cases, e.g. if the ebuild for a installed version is no longer available but there is one for a lower version like in your portage case. |
I have noticed this, but I keep myself asking: 'WHY???' Why does portage want to downgrade a version I'm obviously happy with (or I wouldn't have explicitly used ~x86 when emerging it) for a 'stable' version? Even when I tell Portage explicitly with --upgradeonly that I DON't want to downgrade? |
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