Bug 28242 – After using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS emerge foo, mention emerge -U world to prevent downgrades

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: [OLD] Docs-user

[Description Rob Davies 2003-09-09 00:47:20 UTC]

When you need to accept some unstable packages, there's fair amount on masking, 
and various features, but the simplest solution to avoid ~arch packages from 
being downgraded, is to emerge -U. 
 
There's no mention in manual.  A short one or two line note after explanation 
of ACCEPT_KEYWORDS example would suffice and save many users time and trouble.

[Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2003-11-15 04:21:48 UTC]

Created attachment 20777 [details, diff]
Patch to portage manual

This patch adds a paragraph right after "emerge --update world" to inform the
users that, if they don't want packages to be downgraded, to use "emerge
--upgradeonly world".

If a docdev can review?

[Comment 2 Benny Chuang (RETIRED) 2003-11-15 04:28:29 UTC]

patch looks good

[Comment 3 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2003-11-15 04:42:03 UTC]

Committed.