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 Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 6:59 pm Post subject: qt wants to downgrade to 3.1.2 |
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I've got qt-3.2.1-r1 installed as part of the kde3.2 alpha testing I'm doing. However when I emerge -pu world portage wants to downgrade my qt to 3.1.2-r4. I've even tried several different methods of pinning an exact version into the world file with no luck. What is going on that I can't pin qt? every other program I've got a pin in the world file for behaves properly
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Shigure
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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A quick, dirty fix to this problem is to create a file in /etc/portage/ called package.mask, and stick the following lines in it.
| Code: | <kde-base/kdebase-3.2.0_alpha1
<kde-base/kdelibs-3.2.0_alpha1
<kde-base/arts-3.2.0_alpha1
<x11-libs/qt-3.2.1-r1 |
As for it trying to downgrade qt, if it looks like this in emerge -pu world
| Code: | | [ebuild N ] x11-libs/qt-3.2.1-r1 |
and doesn't have a D next to the N, it's not actually trying to downgrade the package. Instead, it is trying to install that version alongside the current one installed for compatibility purposes.
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Edgaer
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| Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 12:28 am Post subject: |
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| Shigure wrote: | A quick, dirty fix to this problem is to create a file in /etc/portage/ called package.mask, and stick the following lines in it.
| Code: | <kde-base/kdebase-3.2.0_alpha1
<kde-base/kdelibs-3.2.0_alpha1
<kde-base/arts-3.2.0_alpha1
<x11-libs/qt-3.2.1-r1 |
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Yeah I'd thought of masking it temporarily in the main mask file but I was hoping for a non-hacky way of doing it.
| Quote: | As for it trying to downgrade qt, if it looks like this in emerge -pu world
| Code: | | [ebuild N ] x11-libs/qt-3.2.1-r1 |
and doesn't have a D next to the N, it's not actually trying to downgrade the package. Instead, it is trying to install that version alongside the current one installed for compatibility purposes.
Hope that helps. |
Well that obviously isn't what mine looks like since the N means it's a new package that isn't installed.  Mine looks like this actually,
| Code: | | [ebuild UD] x11-libs/qt-3.1.2-r4 [3.2.1-r1] |
So yeah it's trying to downgrade it.
And I had checked into this already to see if it was an issue or if the two versions would coexist, and qt-3.1 and qt-3.2 exist in the same slot and overwrite each other rather than installing along side.
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Shigure
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| Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 2:10 am Post subject: |
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Hmm. You could also do emerge -Up world instead of -up. That should hopefully make it stop with the desire to savagely downgrade qt.
Other than that, the dirty hack will at least work for the now. 
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The Mountain Man
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| Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 3:04 am Post subject: |
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| Yes, "emerge -U world" should do the trick. It prevents packages from downgrading unless they have been flagged as buggy or insecure. |
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Edgaer
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| Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 5:22 am Post subject: |
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Interesting...Is there a long equivalent to -U? I usually use --update when I do acutal updating (I used to do --pretend --update but I got tired of typing a lot).
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| Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 1:40 pm Post subject: |
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Yes. From man emerge:
| Code: | --upgradeonly (-U)
Updates packages, but excludes updates that would result in a
lower version of the package being installed. SLOTs are consid-
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| Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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i think that's the official solution for this problem:
| Code: | | emerge inject x11-libs/qt-3.1.2-r4 |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 10:05 am Post subject: |
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Same problem here , I'd like to emerge -U world and he wants to downgrade fluxbox ...
| Code: | | [ebuild UD] x11-wm/fluxbox-0.1.14-r2 [0.9.6_pre8] |
How can I remove the downgrade of FB ?
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