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Bug 44226 - problems, when downgrading to stable, running rdev-rebuild
Summary: problems, when downgrading to stable, running rdev-rebuild
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Conceptual/Abstract Ideas (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Portage Tools Team
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Reported: 2004-03-10 02:00 UTC by Hans-Christian Armingeon
Modified: 2006-06-05 06:33 UTC (History)
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Description Hans-Christian Armingeon 2004-03-10 02:00:35 UTC 
Hi,

I downgraded from unstable to stable.
While running revdep-rebuild, I've had many messages, that packages are masked (or in unstable).

Johnny

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Go on unstable:
1. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -uD world

Go back on stable:
2. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" emerge -uD world

Run revdep-rebuild
3. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" revdep-rebuild

Actual Results:
Comment 1 TGL 2004-03-11 07:52:15 UTC 
The revdep-rebuild version in bug #41495 should better handle this (but in case there is no stable version at all for a package, where i don't know what could be done anyway).
Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-06-05 06:33:45 UTC 
man revdep-rebuild

<snip>
-X | --package-names
       emerge the best packages available, not neccessarily the exact version of the installed package
</snip>

And, don't use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS on a command line when emerging, ever. Very bad practice.

Closing a stale bug.