Re: [gentoo-dev] Is this a bug in portage?

[Georgi Georgiev]

On 08/09/2003 at 11:57:18(-0700), Alan used 1.6K just to say:
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 08:44:56PM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 20:27, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
> > > On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 20:11:34 +0200
> > > Marius Mauch <genone@××××××.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Did you change kernels after installing nvidia-kernel? If yes it is a
> > > > SLOT change and portage displays it as a upgrade.
> > >
> > > Does Portage supports multiple slots for a same package-version? I
> > > thought it didn't.
> >
> > Not yet, but the fact that SLOT do change cause the difference in
> > display.
>
> It could also be that the version of the package you currently have in
> doesn't exist anymore, and portage is trying to install the next
> available version.  I've had this when I install an ebuild by hand of a
> higher version number (or in ~86) and that version is later on deleted
> and replaced with $version+1, making portage try to downgrade me even
> though I'm telling it to only upgrade.

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22579

Same problem and it clearly shows that nothing suggested until now is the cause
for the wrong output.

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