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
