Dale wrote: > John P. Burkett wrote: >> Alan, >> Thank you very much for your diagnosis and suggestion. Having no >> experience downgrading packages, I'm not certain how to implement the >> proposal to downgrade ftgl. The approach I tried is the following: >> I created a /usr/portage/package.mask file containing the line >> =media-libs/ftgl-2.1.3_rc5 >> and then did >> emerge -C ftgl >> which removed ftgl-2.l.3_rc5. >> Then I did >> emerge ftgl >> expecting to get a lower version. Instead, ftgl-2.l.3_rc5 was emerged >> again. >> So, if you'll forgive such a basic question, how should ftgl be downgraded? >> >> John >> >> >> >> > > I got this: > > r...@smoker / # equery list -p ftgl > [ Searching for package 'ftgl' in all categories among: ] > * installed packages > * Portage tree (/usr/portage) > [-P-] [ ] media-libs/ftgl-2.1.2-r1 (0) > [-P-] [M~] media-libs/ftgl-2.1.2-r2 (0) > [-P-] [ ] media-libs/ftgl-2.1.3_rc5 (0) > r...@smoker / # > > So, I would try this "emerge -va =media-libs/ftgl-2.1.2-r1" and see if > that version works since it was the last stable version, without the > quotes of course. Keep in mind, you have not masked anything so if you > run "emerge -u world" it will try to upgrade. I would find a working > version first, then mask/unmask. That way you know what to mask/unmask. > > I hope that works for you. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > Dale, Thank you very much for your suggestion. It solved my problem! Best regard, John
-- John P. Burkett Department of Economics University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0808 USA phone (401) 874-9195
