11570 – Add new make.conf variable to prevent emerge --upgrade from downgrading unstable/testing packages to older stable ones

Bug 11570 - Add new make.conf variable to prevent emerge --upgrade from downgrading unstable/testing packages to older stable ones

Summary: Add new make.conf variable to prevent emerge --upgrade from downgrading unsta...

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 9379

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Nicholas Jones (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2002-12-04 07:03 UTC by Josep Sanjuas
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:37 UTC (History)
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Description Josep Sanjuas 2002-12-04 07:03:45 UTC

It would be great to add a new variable to make.conf to prevent the portage   
system from downgrading packages. Example:   
   
# ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -u syslog-ng   
(latest syslog-ng 1.5.22 is built and installed) 
# emerge -pu world 
(snip) 
[ebuild    U ] app-admin/syslog-ng-1.4.16 
 
So, updating world would result in downgrading syslog-ng. Maybe it would be 
useful to have a new variable in make.conf called like NEVER_DOWNGRADE which 
would, if set, prevent emerge -u from downgrading packages.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-01-08 14:27:59 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9379 ***