From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0BD11389F5 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:49:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B0E69E094B; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:49:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f51.google.com (mail-wg0-f51.google.com [74.125.82.51]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6FD89E08F3 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:49:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f51.google.com with SMTP id k14so6754207wgh.38 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 13:49:38 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=x0JfOGfahE/xiSS5cjO+/GyBkT8pRVl2GFKms2AOwtg=; b=rIp52FRPlSFCiyOS4FZJusIgYId2s6oQeGaHOOQcW6m9ZdsArl0rTPLCMSb1Hki3Z4 fe6D1uiYHW3/EdTc3g9qmtRVrHuBoTKs4c/p4C60UzoPOew+BXPJgKqpQ/qA346iDpH2 bnoX1KQ4BUuKCobGjFpMEFIiRvEVDHEMVd1nBZ+OEc67qk2szJPPihUAtRp0rjlWPQAM hn+fdhWJkjM4ICgzQaBF0XeXWyWRaYPdKmyLaEhSRCFbjvO19wv3Nme+PI3r31HEF5H9 MPNnsABbT7i9VEq9IeU3cw0YhAbpLuhzgEXI+JbvgCrqErePjvHILu8OdrIF7Cme2EIe hs9w== X-Received: by 10.180.221.201 with SMTP id qg9mr16059066wic.29.1416260978189; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 13:49:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (105-237-183-250.access.mtnbusiness.co.za. [105.237.183.250]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id fi9sm16938550wib.6.2014.11.17.13.49.37 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 17 Nov 2014 13:49:37 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <546A6D5E.8040708@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 23:49:18 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Inconsistency in portage automake package versioning References: <546a6926.e689700a.5ee5.31b0@mx.google.com> In-Reply-To: <546a6926.e689700a.5ee5.31b0@mx.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0d990d65-0352-4d35-8324-e9f8bdf3e7fa X-Archives-Hash: 5ad6faa03580d2c063db3fb9444b44d5 On 17/11/2014 23:29, Gevisz wrote: > In today's system update I was advised to update sys-devel/automake > from version 1.11.6 to version 1.11.6-r1. However, just after the > update the system reported that sys-devel/automake has version 1.13.4. > > Is it only me who think that something is wrong here? > > The commands and their output is given below. > > # emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse --backtrack=90 --ask world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild U ] sys-devel/automake-1.11.6-r1 [1.11.6] > > Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] y > ... >>>> Installing (1 of 1) sys-devel/automake-1.11.6-r1 >>>> Auto-cleaning packages... > >>>> No outdated packages were found on your system. > > * Regenerating GNU info directory index... > * Processed 148 info files. > * After world updates, it is important to remove obsolete packages with > * emerge --depclean. Refer to `man emerge` for more information. > > > # emerge --search automake ... Nothing wrong there. automake is SLOTted. emerge upgraded one of your installed SLOTs, and that slot is not the highest version number you have. p.s. make life easier for yourself when searching the tree. Install eix and stop using emerge --search. eix runs out a gazillion times faster :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com