gentoo package downgrade

[ashi]

Hi, all. I want to downgrade mesa7.11.2 to mesa 7.10.2 by adding a line to /etc/portage/package.accept_words:
=media-libs/mesa-7.10.2
then I run emerge -avt mesa ,but it seems not work. I've read Maintaining packages section from http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage. where am I wrong? thanks for any reply.

[Yuu]

Hi ashi,

just mask the packages which are newer than media-libs/mesa-7.0.3:

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echo ">media-libs/mesa-7.10.3" >> /etc/portage/package.mask

Then, try an emerge:

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# emerge -DuNpv world

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N     ] sys-libs/talloc-2.0.1-r2  USE="-compat -doc -static-libs -swig" 0 kB
[ebuild     UD ] media-libs/mesa-7.10.3 [7.11.2] USE="classic gallium nptl -debug -gles -hardened% -llvm* -motif -pic (-selinux) (-bindist%) (-egl%*) (-gbm%) (-openvg%) (-osmesa%) (-pax_kernel%) (-shared-dricore%) (-shared-glapi%*)" VIDEO_CARDS="-intel -mach64 -mga -nouveau -r128 -radeon -savage -sis -tdfx -via -vmware" 0 kB

Total: 2 packages (1 downgrade, 1 new), Size of downloads: 0 kB

Note: media-libs/mesa-7.10.2 is not is the tree, but media-libs/mesa-7.10.3 is.


Good luck :]

[ashi]

Hi ashi,

just mask the packages which are newer than media-libs/mesa-7.0.3:

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echo ">media-libs/mesa-7.10.3" >> /etc/portage/package.mask

Then, try an emerge:

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# emerge -DuNpv world

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N     ] sys-libs/talloc-2.0.1-r2  USE="-compat -doc -static-libs -swig" 0 kB
[ebuild     UD ] media-libs/mesa-7.10.3 [7.11.2] USE="classic gallium nptl -debug -gles -hardened% -llvm* -motif -pic (-selinux) (-bindist%) (-egl%*) (-gbm%) (-openvg%) (-osmesa%) (-pax_kernel%) (-shared-dricore%) (-shared-glapi%*)" VIDEO_CARDS="-intel -mach64 -mga -nouveau -r128 -radeon -savage -sis -tdfx -via -vmware" 0 kB

Total: 2 packages (1 downgrade, 1 new), Size of downloads: 0 kB

Note: media-libs/mesa-7.10.2 is not is the tree, but media-libs/mesa-7.10.3 is.


Good luck :]

Thanks, Yuu. it works.