[gentoo-user] Re: Why does emerge -auvND world wants to install old gentoo-soruces?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2008-08-03, Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com> wrote:

> Suddenly (starting today) "emerge -auvtND world" wants to
> install an older version of gentoo-sources (2.6.25-r6), and I
> can't figure out why:
>
>    # emerge --search gentoo-sources
>    Searching...
>    [ Results for search key : gentoo-sources ]
>    [ Applications found : 1 ]
>
>    *  sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
>          Latest version available: 2.6.25-r7
>          Latest version installed: 2.6.25-r7
>          Size of files: 47,585 kB
>          Homepage:      http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches
>          Description:   Full sources including the Gentoo patchset for the 2.6 kernel tree
>          License:       GPL-2
>
>
>    # emerge -auvtND world
>
>    These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
>
>    Calculating world dependencies /
>    ... done!
>    [ebuild  NS   ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r6 USE="-build -symlink" 0 kB
>
>    Total: 1 package (1 in new slot), Size of downloads: 0 kB

I finally gave up and let it install the old version of
gentoo-sources (and then I went and deleted all of the files).
It's got to be a bug in portage, but I can't figure out what
triggers it. My other systems don't do it, and I can't find any
differences between the systems that seem relevant.

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