[closed]backing up a version

jk121960 · Last edited by jk121960 on Mon Aug 12, 2013 8:26 am; edited 1 time in total

Hi, I need to rollback a version of dev-libs/uci to dev-libs/icu-50.1.2 I went up to the site and matched the package version but it keeps telling me it is not a valid package atom?

The code I am executing is:
emerge -aqv dev-libs/icu-50.1.2

I get back:

dev-libs/icu-50.1.2' is not a valid package atom.

Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?

thanks for any help

--jerry

The Doctor · Moderator Joined: 27 Jul 2010 Posts: 2678

Your missing the equals sign. Use emerge -aqv =dev-libs/icu-50.1.2
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John R. Graham · Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 11:35 pm Post subject:

Yep. With emerge, a versioned package atom must be preceded by a comparison operator, like so:

jk121960 · Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 12:28 am Post subject:

Ok tht worked to get me to a point, but now it iswailing about deps. Just to fill you in I need to do this to get vmware-layer working according to the posts. So now it is telling me this:
[ebuild UD] dev-libs/icu-50.1.2 [51.1] USE="-debug -doc -examples -static-libs"

!!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled
!!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:

dev-libs/icu:0

(dev-libs/icu-51.1::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
dev-libs/icu:0/51.1= required by (dev-libs/libxml2-2.9.0-r2::gentoo, installed)
>=dev-libs/icu-49.1.1-r1:0/51.1= required by (www-client/chromium-27.0.1453.110::gentoo, installed)
dev-libs/icu:0/51.1= required by (media-libs/harfbuzz-0.9.12::gentoo, installed)

(dev-libs/icu-50.1.2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by
=dev-libs/icu-50.1.2

what would be the best way to go about continuing this. Can I force it, we are only talking about a minor version difference.?

I appreciate you help

--jerry

jk121960 · Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 8:28 am Post subject:

Never got this fixed, I can only use windows vm's that are UTF-8, -> windows 8 and server 2012

Freeky · Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 1:09 pm Post subject:

You have some packages which require old dev-libs/icu.
Updating of dev-libs/icu is impossible without upgrading other packages.
It should help you