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From: "Alberto G. Hierro" <fiam@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Strange behaviour in portage
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 01:05:57
Message-Id: 200309130308.42653.fiam@asturlinux.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Strange behaviour in portage by Thomas de Grenier de Latour
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4 El Sábado, 13 de Septiembre de 2003 02:08, Thomas de Grenier de Latour
5 escribió:
6 > On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 01:26:10 +0200
7 > "Alberto G. Hierro" <fiam@××××××××××.org>(by way of Alberto G. Hierro
8 >
9 > <fiam@××××××××××.org>) wrote:
10 > > Why is pfeifer-sources going to be downgraded (i used -U) and why
11 > > emerge shows it as an upgrade?
12 >
13 > It's not a downgrade, it's an upgrade in 2.4.20 slot. Your 2.4.21
14 > version won't be affected.
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16 As we can see in /var/db/pkg/sys-kernel/ :
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18 fiam@ixnay fiam $ ls /var/db/pkg/sys-kernel/
19 genkernel-1.8 linux-headers-2.4.19-r1
20 gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r7 pfeifer-sources-2.4.21.1_pre4
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22 I haven't any pfeifer-sources slotted 2.4.20, so what's upgrading portage?
23
24 I know 2.4.21 won't be affected, but I don't want two versions installed on my
25 system if I only use one of them.
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27 >
28 > > Is this a bug or is the expected behaviour?
29 >
30 > I would say "minor bug" since it's only about output, or a somehow
31 > "expected behavior" since it's now well known :)
32 > See bug #18608 for a possible fix to the cosmetic part of this issue,
33 > 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 <degrenier@×××××××××××.fr>