Quick question on emerge -u

yaman666 · Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2003 6:25 pm Post subject: Quick question on emerge -u

Sometimes when I type in emerge -u for some package, it shows me that it would merge packages of older version, for example:

[ebuild UD] media-libs/freetype-1.3.1-r3 [2.1.2-r2]

or

[ebuild UD] gnome-base/gnome-panel-1.4.2-r1 [2.0.11-r0]

Does that mean it has to downgrade the current package to a version below in order for whatever I'm installing to work? If that's the case, will it affect anything else that depends on that package?

Thanks!

garo · Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2003 6:32 pm Post subject:

if i want to emerge package a but it tells me it's going to downgrade package b then i do the following:

yaman666 · Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2003 7:07 pm Post subject:

What do a and b refer to in this case? Here's my example for php:

CoronaLover · Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2003 7:25 pm Post subject:

Well in this case, freetype is SLOTED which means emerging freetype 1.x will not downgrade freetype 2.x. Both freetype 1.x and 2.x can live together!
Unfortunetly portage fails to report this to the user.
I know this is being worked on...

yaman666 · Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2003 7:34 pm Post subject:

So in other words no problems will occur? :-)

Does that apply to just freetype or most of the packages which would be downgraded. For example:

CoronaLover · Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2003 7:39 pm Post subject:

yep, its safe.
I know it safe for freetype and the gnome packages, for the other stuff, I dont know.