Re: [gentoo-dev] About trying to prevent downgrades of packages that cause system breakage

2012-07-07 Thread Ralph Sennhauser
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 13:01:52 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: > On 06/30/2012 12:42 PM, Ralph Sennhauser wrote: > > That might be neat, but it would already help if you had to add > > --allow-downgrades or similar to emerge in case Portage wants to > > downgrade one or more packages. > > Besides preventin

Re: [gentoo-dev] About trying to prevent downgrades of packages that cause system breakage

2012-06-30 Thread Zac Medico
On 06/30/2012 11:33 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Am Samstag 30 Juni 2012, 13:22:39 schrieb Zac Medico: >> On 06/30/2012 04:07 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: >>> I would like to discuss a bit more issues like: >>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423087 >>> >>> Even if there are "a lot" of package

Re: [gentoo-dev] About trying to prevent downgrades of packages that cause system breakage

2012-06-30 Thread Zac Medico
On 06/30/2012 12:42 PM, Ralph Sennhauser wrote: > That might be neat, but it would already help if you had to add > --allow-downgrades or similar to emerge in case Portage wants to > downgrade one or more packages. > Besides preventing an accidental downgrade it would raise the > awareness of the p

Re: [gentoo-dev] About trying to prevent downgrades of packages that cause system breakage

2012-06-30 Thread Ralph Sennhauser
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 20:33:35 +0200 "Andreas K. Huettel" wrote: > Am Samstag 30 Juni 2012, 13:22:39 schrieb Zac Medico: > > On 06/30/2012 04:07 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > > I would like to discuss a bit more issues like: > > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423087 > > > > > > Even if the

Re: [gentoo-dev] About trying to prevent downgrades of packages that cause system breakage

2012-06-30 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Samstag 30 Juni 2012, 13:22:39 schrieb Zac Medico: > On 06/30/2012 04:07 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > I would like to discuss a bit more issues like: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423087 > > > > Even if there are "a lot" of packages that can cause this breakage when > > downgraded,

Re: [gentoo-dev] About trying to prevent downgrades of packages that cause system breakage

2012-06-30 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 30-06-2012 a las 13:46 -0400, Ian Stakenvicius escribió: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 30/06/12 01:30 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > El sáb, 30-06-2012 a las 13:17 -0400, Ian Stakenvicius escribió: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 > >> > >> On

Re: [gentoo-dev] About trying to prevent downgrades of packages that cause system breakage

2012-06-30 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 30/06/12 01:30 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > El sáb, 30-06-2012 a las 13:17 -0400, Ian Stakenvicius escribió: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 >> >> On 30/06/12 11:16 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> On Saturday 30 June 2012 07:22:39 Za

Re: [gentoo-dev] About trying to prevent downgrades of packages that cause system breakage

2012-06-30 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 30-06-2012 a las 13:17 -0400, Ian Stakenvicius escribió: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 30/06/12 11:16 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Saturday 30 June 2012 07:22:39 Zac Medico wrote: > >> On 06/30/2012 04:07 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > >>> I would like to discuss

Re: [gentoo-dev] About trying to prevent downgrades of packages that cause system breakage

2012-06-30 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 30/06/12 11:16 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Saturday 30 June 2012 07:22:39 Zac Medico wrote: >> On 06/30/2012 04:07 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: >>> I would like to discuss a bit more issues like: >>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423087 >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] About trying to prevent downgrades of packages that cause system breakage

2012-06-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 30 June 2012 07:22:39 Zac Medico wrote: > On 06/30/2012 04:07 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > I would like to discuss a bit more issues like: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423087 > > > > Even if there are "a lot" of packages that can cause this breakage when > > downgraded, I

Re: [gentoo-dev] About trying to prevent downgrades of packages that cause system breakage

2012-06-30 Thread Zac Medico
On 06/30/2012 04:07 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > I would like to discuss a bit more issues like: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423087 > > Even if there are "a lot" of packages that can cause this breakage when > downgraded, I think it should be prevented and package managers > shouldn't tr

[gentoo-dev] About trying to prevent downgrades of packages that cause system breakage

2012-06-30 Thread Pacho Ramos
I would like to discuss a bit more issues like: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423087 Even if there are "a lot" of packages that can cause this breakage when downgraded, I think it should be prevented and package managers shouldn't try to downgrade this kind of packages as they will later