On 11/4/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht schreef: > > Is there some small thing I'm overlooking. It seems that portage > > thinks that wine-20050930 is newer than the first official release > > wine-0.9 and therefore wants to 'upgrade' Wine when it's really a > > downgrade. > > > > Does portage need to be informed of something special here? > > Yes, it does. There is a bug on b.g.o about the issue, but said issue > will ex not be resolved until the maintainer sees how future releases > are going to be numbered. For now, just mask > > (piped to prevent Thunderbird quoting) > > | >app-emulation/wine-0.9 > > in /etc/portage/package.mask, and that should do it. (It's how I did it). > > Holly
OK, thanks Holly. That's basically how I got it installed. I generally avoid putting these masks in as I seem to forget they are there. :-) Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
