Bug 12069 – Extra option to skip downgrades

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description faz 2002-12-13 01:36:35 UTC]

I'm using a mix of stable, unstable, masked and, of course, unmasked packages. 
This results in not being able to construct a emerge statement giving me only those 
packages who has been installed and a more recent version is available. I have to 
check the output of emerge -up world by hand to select the right packages. The 
recent addition of the actual installed version helps a lot in this (thanks for that). I 
suggest adding a new option (--onlynewer) that forces emerge to skip older versions. 
Maybe it would even be better to change --update to do the same thing. The text of 
the manual suggests this behaviour of --update.

[Comment 1 kde123 2002-12-28 09:11:25 UTC]

Created attachment 6806 [details]
vote for this or similar option

[Comment 2 J Robert Ray 2003-01-19 02:02:40 UTC]

Created attachment 7430 [details, diff]
emerge.diff

This patch adds a '--nodowngrade' or '-g' option to emerge.

geep root # emerge -up world

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[ebuild    UD] app-text/xpdf-2.01 [2.01-r1]
[ebuild    U ] net-www/links-2.1_pre6 [2.1_pre3]



geep root # emerge -up --nodowngrade world

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[ebuild    U ] net-www/links-2.1_pre6 [2.1_pre3]

[Comment 3 Olivier Reisch (RETIRED) 2003-01-20 09:45:30 UTC]

patch works great here, comes in very handy :)

[Comment 4 Narada Sage 2003-02-01 17:46:35 UTC]

I'd prefer the parameter was called 'maintain' with a short switch of -m if this was to be done. 

[Comment 5 Fir3fly 2003-02-03 01:53:10 UTC]

Cool, that was what i was looking for, but how do I add the patch?

[Comment 6 Bartosch Pixa (RETIRED) 2003-02-03 03:54:06 UTC]

what about updates to SLOTed packages ?

[Comment 7 J Robert Ray 2003-02-03 04:50:54 UTC]

Upgrades to SLOTed packages are not disabled by this flag, although they still appear as 'D'.

[Comment 8 Scott Richey 2003-02-03 10:22:55 UTC]

This patch is great, just what I've been looking for! I think this needs to be in the official version.

[Comment 9 Eric Andresen 2003-02-20 16:47:23 UTC]

Created attachment 8550 [details, diff]
emerge-2.0.47-r2.diff

Here's an updated copy of the diff for portage 2.0.47-r2

[Comment 10 Eric Andresen 2003-02-20 16:47:37 UTC]

Created attachment 8551 [details, diff]
emerge-2.0.47-r2.diff

Here's an updated copy of the diff for portage 2.0.47-r2

[Comment 11 SpanKY 2003-03-04 09:56:41 UTC]

*** Bug 16819 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 12 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) 2003-03-05 04:17:27 UTC]

-U/--upgradeonly

[Comment 13 Danny Milosavljevic 2004-04-09 05:08:35 UTC]

does a make.conf option for that exist ? (i.e. to make it never downgrade)