Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 15:01:57 +0200:
> My problem still seems unsolved (or did I miss something) ? You missed something. > Lets say, if I've, installed foo-1.1, and it gets masked due some bug(s), > but 1.0 isn't, I want to get informed with an big fat warning, *before* > anything actually done, ie. > > [...] > # WARNING: installed package foo-1.1 has been masked and would # be > downgraded: > # <masking comment ...> > [...] That's precisely what emerge --pretend --verbose covers. Or, if you want the display with a question to continue or not, use --ask instead of --verbose. A good Gentoo user (read that as a good system administrator, because that's exactly what a Gentoo distribution user is in this context) will never run a straight "fully automatic" upgrade/downgrade, without knowing exactly what's going to be done, because that's foolhardy, as you correctly point out. They will always know what to expect, because they will have either used --pretend first, or will use --ask as a matter of course. Are you actually suggesting that you run emerge --update /blind/, /without/ having viewed the --pretend (or --ask) output to see what it's going to actually do, first? No /wonder/ you are having problems if so! That's why the --pretend and --ask switches are /there/! Use them for what they are intended for, and you'll no longer be troubled by downgrades without warning. Only /after/ you are comfortable that the command will do what you expect/want, do you run it without the --pretend, or say yes to the --ask. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
