Bug 44226

Summary:	problems, when downgrading to stable, running rdev-rebuild
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Hans-Christian Armingeon <mog.johnny>
Component:	Conceptual/Abstract Ideas	Assignee:	Portage Tools Team <tools-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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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.