On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 00:27:56 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote:

>       In turn my /etc/portage/package.mask contains the line
> 
>  >app-office/libreoffice-4.1.0.1  
> 
>       or
> 
>  >=app-office/libreoffice-4.1.0.1  
> 
>       This results in portage wanting to downgrade libreoffice
> 
> [ebuild     UD ] app-office/libreoffice-4.0.4.2 [4.1.0.1]
> 
> What do I have to fiddle so that portage won't want to upgrade 
> libreoffice? This is stopping my "-NuD world" from completing so I need 
> to suppress libreoffice for the time being and come back to it later.

4.1.0.1 is no longer in the portage tree, so 4.0.4.2 is the highest
version that fulfils your settings. The solution is to copy the ebuild
from /var/db/pkg into your local overlay (you will have to set one up if
not already done so) which will keep portage happy.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

"Daddy, what does formatting drive 'C' mean?

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