Graham Murray wrote: >Sometimes a package will upgrade/downgrade alternately when running >'emerge -uD world'. One such that is happening to me right now is >libtheora. media-lib/xine-lib has a 'straight' (no version) dependency >on libtheora, which causes emerge to update to the latest >version. media-plugins/gst-plugins-theora has a dependency on a >specific version of libtheora, which causes the next emerge to >downgrade libtheora to that version. And so the cycle continues. > >Should portage not recognise the specific version requirement and >not perform an upgrade to a later version? > >
It is a long-standing bug in portage, and apparently not easy to fix. You can workaround the problem by adding an appropriate entry to /etc/portage/package.mask. For example, I have: # 1.02 or lower required by piave >media-libs/libdv-0.102 # 28_pre6 or lower required by kwifimanager >net-wireless/wireless-tools-28_pre6 So, just mask out the versions media-libs/theora greater than whatever gst-plugins-theora wants. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
