On Monday 15 June 2009 18:50:58 Stroller wrote: > On 15 Jun 2009, at 08:34, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > ... > > Much more work than it's worth. It's easier to reinstall. > > ... > > There was a recent thread on this, and the OP eventually decided to > > write a > > script that listed every package he had and copy this to > > package.mask (with > > ">" in front of course), then just wait for everything in stable to > > catch up. > > I considered that to be an easy & straight-forward way to undertake > the "downgrade". > > I'm not sure if every installed package was marked in this way or > merely every package in world?
Mark everything. Otherwise you end up with with 150 packages in world at stable, and the other 850 packages which are DEPs at unstable. And that's where all hell breaks loose. Whether a dep is installed arch or ~arch depends only on ACCEPT_KEYWORDS and explicit directives in /etc/portage/*, and nothing to do with the package that pulled it in (exception: a package that defines a version or range of versions in it's DEPENDS) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
