On 1/23/06, Beau E. Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi - > > I try: > > # emerge -uD world -p > ... > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > [ebuild U ] media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.11 [0.8.10] > > OK. So I do it: > # emerge -uD world > .... > [SUCCESS] > > Now I check again: > > # emerge -uD world -p > ... > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > [ebuild UD] media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.10 [0.8.11] > > ping-pong ... ;) > > Have I messed up my tree? If so, I am asking for some tips > on how to fix it.
No, portage doesn't handle this particular case very well. You have something on your system that depends on <=media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.10 (use --tree to find this), so when you have 0.8.11 installed, portage needs to downgrade it to satisfy the dependancy. The bug (already reported on bugs.gentoo.org for a long time) is when you have 0.8.10 installed, it sees that there is an upgrade available, and tries to merge it. The workaround is: echo "# pkg foo requires gst-plugins < 0.8.11" >>/etc/portage/package.mask echo "=media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.11" >>/etc/portage/package.mask -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
