On (03/01/06 00:30), C. Beamer wrote: > Hi all, > > I ran emerge --sync this evening and afterwards when I did 'emerge > --pretend --update --deep world', I got the following result: > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating world dependencies ..... .... ...done! > [ebuild UD] media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.9a [1.0.10_rc3] > [ebuild U ] media-libs/xvid-1.0.3 [1.0.2] > [ebuild U ] media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20051216 [0.4.9_p20050226-r5] > [ebuild U ] media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.1-r3 [1.1.1-r2] > [ebuild U ] media-libs/libexif-0.6.12-r4 [0.5.12-r3] > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/dbus-0.23.4-r1 [0.23-r3] > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/hal-0.4.8 [0.4.7-r2] > [ebuild U ] app-cdr/cdrdao-1.2.1 [1.2.0-r1] > [ebuild U ] media-video/transcode-0.6.14-r3 [0.6.14-r2] > > I understand what this is telling me, but I don't understand why I would > need to downgrade alsa-utils. I have alsa-driver version 1.0.10_r3 and > up until today, when I synced, there wasn't a problem with alsa-libs. > > I assumed that the downgrade was because one of the other packages in > the list. However, I did 'emerge --pretend' on each of the other > packages and none listed alsa-utils as a dependency. Then, I emerged > each of the packages individually and got no error messages. After > emerging all other packages, my system reboots fine and there seems to > be no problems. However, now if I run 'emerge --pretend --update --deep > world', emerge still wants to downgrade alsa-utils. > > In other situations (like for the ati-drivers), I put > '=x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.14.13-r5 ~x86' in my package.keywords file > to get around upgrading the driver because with the newer version of > this driver, my system won't shutdown or reboot when either of those > options are chosen from the menu on KDE logout. However, I tried this > and I get a message about an "invalid atom" (even without the ~x86 at > the end of the line). > > I don't want to downgrade the alsa-utils in case it breaks alsa-driver > and as I said, I don't understand why all of a sudden I would have to. > > How do I prevent the downgrade during an emerge --update world without > having to emerge each package individually? > > Regards, > > Colleen > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > Hi, It's a question of adding one additional option to emerge: --tree (-t). It'll then display some additional packages for which the upgrades are dependencies, check the one above alsa-utils - it requires the downgrade. BTW does anybody knows about some script to check the dependencies (like "dep") from 'ecatmur' (it's not maintained anymore). Very usefull tool, but doesn't work with latest portage though. Rumen
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