[gentoo-dev] Strange behaviour in portage

[gentoo-dev] Strange behaviour in portage

[Alberto G. Hierro]

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Hi all list,

	I emerged pfeifer-sources-2.4.21-r1_pre4 using ~x86 as ACCEPT_KEYWORDS
(default in my system is x86) a few hours ago. Now, I've just synced and
typed 'emerge -DpUv world' and this is the output from emerge:

 ixnay root # emerge -DpUv world

>>> --upgradeonly implies --update... adding --update to options.

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

Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/coreutils-5.0-r3 [4.5.11-r1] +nls -build -selinux
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/debianutils-1.16.7-r3 [1.16.7-r2] -static -build
[ebuild     U ] sys-kernel/pfeifer-sources-2.4.20.1_pre11 [2.4.21.1_pre4]
- - -build +crypt -evms2 -aavm -usagi -doc +tcltk
[ebuild     U ] app-admin/gkrellm-2.1.16 [2.1.15] +gtk +gtk2 +nls
[ebuild     U ] x11-themes/gentoo-artwork-0.3 [0.2] +kde


Why is pfeifer-sources going to be downgraded (i used -U) and why emerge
 shows it as an upgrade? Is this a bug or is the expected behaviour?
 2.4.20.1_pre11 >  2.4.21.1_pre4 ?

Regards,

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Strange behaviour in portage

[Thomas de Grenier de Latour]

On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 01:26:10 +0200
"Alberto G. Hierro" <fiam@asturlinux.org>(by way of Alberto G. Hierro
<fiam@asturlinux.org>) wrote:

> Why is pfeifer-sources going to be downgraded (i used -U) and why
> emerge shows it as an upgrade? 

It's not a downgrade, it's an upgrade in 2.4.20 slot. Your 2.4.21
version won't be affected. 

> Is this a bug or is the expected behaviour?

I would say "minor bug" since it's only about output, or a somehow
"expected behavior" since it's now well known :)
See bug #18608 for a possible fix to the cosmetic part of this issue,
and bug #4698 for a more in depth discussion.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Strange behaviour in portage

[Alberto G. Hierro]

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El Sábado, 13 de Septiembre de 2003 02:08, Thomas de Grenier de Latour 
escribió:
> On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 01:26:10 +0200
> "Alberto G. Hierro" <fiam@asturlinux.org>(by way of Alberto G. Hierro
>
> <fiam@asturlinux.org>) wrote:
> > Why is pfeifer-sources going to be downgraded (i used -U) and why
> > emerge shows it as an upgrade?
>
> It's not a downgrade, it's an upgrade in 2.4.20 slot. Your 2.4.21
> version won't be affected.

As we can see in /var/db/pkg/sys-kernel/ : 

fiam@ixnay fiam $ ls /var/db/pkg/sys-kernel/
genkernel-1.8             linux-headers-2.4.19-r1
gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r7  pfeifer-sources-2.4.21.1_pre4

 I haven't any pfeifer-sources slotted 2.4.20, so what's upgrading portage?

I know 2.4.21 won't be affected, but I don't want two versions installed on my 
system if I only use one of them.

>
> > Is this a bug or is the expected behaviour?
>
> I would say "minor bug" since it's only about output, or a somehow
> "expected behavior" since it's now well known :)
> See bug #18608 for a possible fix to the cosmetic part of this issue,
> and bug #4698 for a more in depth discussion.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Strange behaviour in portage

[Thomas de Grenier de Latour]

On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 03:08:34 +0200
"Alberto G. Hierro" <fiam@asturlinux.org> wrote:

>  I haven't any pfeifer-sources slotted 2.4.20, so what's upgrading
>  portage?

He install the latest available version of the package, as requested.
Sure, "-U" flag prevents downgrades, but since this is not a downgrade
because of slots...  

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Strange behaviour in portage

[Alberto G. Hierro]

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El Sábado, 13 de Septiembre de 2003 03:25, Thomas de Grenier de Latour 
escribió:
> On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 03:08:34 +0200
>
> "Alberto G. Hierro" <fiam@asturlinux.org> wrote:
> >  I haven't any pfeifer-sources slotted 2.4.20, so what's upgrading
> >  portage?
>
> He install the latest available version of the package, as requested.
> Sure, "-U" flag prevents downgrades, but since this is not a downgrade
> because of slots...

Ok, so i'll inject it. Thanks

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