[gentoo-user] Portage (and other packages) downgrade?

[gentoo-user] Portage (and other packages) downgrade?

[Zeerak Mustafa Waseem]

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Hey guys,

I'm having some strange behaviour from portage. Last week it downgraded chromium, which happens from time to time, so I didn't think too much about it.
Today when updating portage seemed to want to downgrade itself from alpha3 to 2.1.9. As well as downgrading pidgin (this is without greater importance). 
I just don't quite see why it wants to be downgraded as I have portage in my package.unmask.
I've attatched my emerge --info, perhaps someone can identify the issue? Or just tell me that there is no issue and everyone is having this experience?

Anyway, thanks for the help :)

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Zeerak Waseem

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app-shells/bash:     4.1_p9
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.6.6-r1, 3.1.2-r4
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.1-r2
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1
sys-apps/openrc:     0.6.3
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.3-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.68
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc:       4.4.5
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.10
sys-devel/make:      3.82
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.35 (sys-kernel/linux-headers)
Repositories:

gentoo
    location: /var/portage
    sync: rsync://rsync21.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
    priority: 1000

arcon
    location: /var/lib/layman/arcon
    masters: gentoo
    priority: -1

pure-funtoo
    location: /var/lib/layman/pure-funtoo
    masters: gentoo
    priority: -2

roslin
    location: /var/lib/layman/roslin
    masters: gentoo
    priority: -3

akoya
    location: /var/lib/layman/akoya
    masters: gentoo
    priority: -4

x11
    location: /var/lib/layman/x11
    masters: gentoo
    priority: -5

cauthorn_overlay
    location: /var/local/portage
    masters: gentoo
    priority: -6

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ANT_HOME="/usr/share/ant"
APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias"
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EROOT="/"
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GDK_USE_XFT="1"
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MULTILIB_STRICT_EXEMPT="(perl5|gcc|gcc-lib|binutils|eclipse-3|debug|portage)"
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PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.4.5"
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PRELINK_PATH_MASK="/usr/lib64/libfreebl3.so:/usr/lib64/libnssdbm3.so:/usr/lib64/libsoftokn3.so"
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Portage 2.2.0_alpha3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.12.1-r3, 2.6.36-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.36-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T7300_@_2.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 04:45:01 +0000
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Re: [gentoo-user] Portage (and other packages) downgrade?

[Alan McKinnon]

Apparently, though unproven, at 09:07 on Friday 05 November 2010, Zeerak 
Mustafa Waseem did opine thusly:

> Hey guys,
> 
> I'm having some strange behaviour from portage. Last week it downgraded
> chromium, which happens from time to time, so I didn't think too much
> about it. Today when updating portage seemed to want to downgrade itself
> from alpha3 to 2.1.9. As well as downgrading pidgin (this is without
> greater importance). I just don't quite see why it wants to be downgraded
> as I have portage in my package.unmask. I've attatched my emerge --info,
> perhaps someone can identify the issue? Or just tell me that there is no
> issue and everyone is having this experience?
> 
> Anyway, thanks for the help :)


You are about the 5th person to ask this week.....  ;-)

From $PORTDIR/profiles/ChangeLog:

 01 Nov 2010; Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> package.mask:
  Remove portage-2.2 from package.mask since we're now using a keywords mask
  instead. This alleviates issues for cases like bug #336692 in which people
  want to use profiles to unmask portage-2.2.

Remove your pckage.unamsk entry and replace it with this in package.keywords 
(or the new! improved! name of package.accept.keywords):

<sys-apps/portage-9999            **

Make it less than 9999 to get around the absurd version numbering Zac is 
having to resort to lately


-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com