On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:53:52 -0700, Hilco Wijbenga wrote:

> I decided that I did not want to go back to 4.5.1 so I added
> 
> =kde-base/pykde4-4.5.1
> 
> to /etc/portage/package.mask.
> 
> To my utmost surprise, I got the exact same result as before when
> running the above emerge command again. I tried it with one of the
> other upgrades mentioned and package.mask had the expected result.
> 
> So I'm confused. Why is package.mask not having any (apparent) effect
> for pykde4? How do I prevent the downgrade?

4.5.1-r1 was in the kde overlay, it is no longer there. That's why
portage wants to downgrade and no amount of unmasking will change that.
If you want to stay with -r1, copy the ebuild from /var/db/pkg to your
local overlay.


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Neil Bothwick

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