Removing entries from updating

Roguelazer · Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2003 12:32 am Post subject: Removing entries from updating

Every time I try to upgrade any packages, portage wants to downgrade my nvidia 4191 series drivers to the 3123 series. Is there any way to disable this? I can't even upgrade mplayer without having to uninstall 4191, install 3123, upgrade mplayer, uninstall 3123 and install 4191. It's annoying... Is there any way to remove it from the auto-update list (world?)

Sven Vermeulen · Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2003 4:45 pm Post subject:

Remove it from /var/cache/edb/world, but this won't help if you do a "emerge --deep -u world" unless it's no dependency for any package...

codemode · n00b Joined: 07 Mar 2003 Posts: 9 Location: Worms, Germany

try my patch "patch for mixing stable/unstable" https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=39902.

Thats exactly my problem. Seems to work like a charm, it got the newest version of nvidia (r2) today.

btw, its portage 2.0.47-r7...

Roguelazer · Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2003 7:10 pm Post subject:

Thank you codemode! It works great, I even added my other unstable programs. You should get the devs to incorporate this into portage!

rac · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2003 6:07 pm Post subject:

Look at the --upgradeonly option.
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codemode · n00b Joined: 07 Mar 2003 Posts: 9 Location: Worms, Germany

I mailed an improved version (with specific architectures) to Nick Jones (carpaski), I hope he'll accept it...

I'm glad somebody appreciates my idea (the coding was not really hard work).