While we are talking about portage; reciently I have needed to downgrade KDE.
I had KDE3.0.5a already installed as well as KDE3.1 - it would be nice to be able to specify a version for an upgrade or recompile just like you can with --clean. Therefore, emerge <=kde3.0 would find KDE3.0.5a and emerge that while leaving KDE3.1 alone. Currently if for example KDE3.0.5a was already installed you can do a: emerge -u kde-base/kde-3.0.5a.ebuild However, this will not recompile everything associated with KDE3.0.5a - all it will do is run this ebuild. What would be nice is an option that would run emerge and recompile everything even if it is already installed eg.. emerge -R --deep =kde-3.0.5a and it would run through the whole process of compiling everything again even if it is already installed. Adrian On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 03:36 pm, Ing. Bernardo Lopez wrote: > Hi all, i want to suggest a new feature to the portage,a new flag in > this ([S] = security update): > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [ebuild R ] dev-php/mod_php-4.3.0-r2 > changed by > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [ebuild SR ] dev-php/mod_php-4.3.0-r2 > > So we can know when we *MUST* update an ebuild for security reasons > Also in the process of emerge rsync that should be great to have a > feature to the same stuff, also the ~x86 should be look like > ([T]=testing ebuild): > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [ebuild T ] dev-php/mod_php-4.3.0-r2 > > Well this sounds weird but i guess there are very NICE features to add. > > Have a nice day -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list