On Sat, 2001-12-15 at 09:52, Terry Chan wrote: > Hi, > > When using portage 1.7.7 try this to test for a possible bug > in deciding latest versions of package names again: > > emerge net-misc/openssh > > Portage chooses openssh-3.0_p1-r6, but there are at least two other > ebuilds that are greater than this, namely openssh-3.0.1_p1 and > openssh-3.0.2_p1 > > openssh is not in package.mask, so I don't think that is part of this > problem. > > Is this a real bug? Am I interpreting the ebuild names incorrectly? > Hi It is a small bug in portage (been there some time now), but since portage2 is in the works, Daniel decided not to hack broken code with even uglier hacks. The openssh thing we fixed with removing the old ebuilds (emerge --clean rsync sould update it). Otherwise you could try this *cough* unsupported *cough* patch which I made some time ago. Please note that portage2 will fix this, and with cool regexp will be much faster and saner. Greetings, -- Martin Schlemmer Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Developer Cape Town, South Africa