Rumen Yotov wrote: >On (03/01/06 00:30), C. Beamer wrote: > > >>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-utils. >> >>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. >> >> >> >> >Hi, >It's a question of adding one additional option to emerge: --tree (-t). >It'll then display some additional packages for which the upgrades are >dependencies, check the one above alsa-utils - it requires the downgrade. >Rumen > > Since I upgraded all the packages individually, only alsa-utils remains for upgrade/downgrade. However, I did try 'emerge --pretend --update --deep --tree alsa-utils' and it didn't return any dependencies. The list as given above was the complete list, so I'm not sure what was meant by "check the one above alsa-utils'.
Regards, Colleen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
