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From: Gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Inconsistency in portage automake package versioning
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:31:28
Message-Id: 546a6926.e689700a.5ee5.31b0@mx.google.com
1 In today's system update I was advised to update sys-devel/automake
2 from version 1.11.6 to version 1.11.6-r1. However, just after the
3 update the system reported that sys-devel/automake has version 1.13.4.
4
5 Is it only me who think that something is wrong here?
6
7 The commands and their output is given below.
8
9 # emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse --backtrack=90 --ask world
10
11 These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
12
13 Calculating dependencies... done!
14 [ebuild U ] sys-devel/automake-1.11.6-r1 [1.11.6]
15
16 Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] y
17 ...
18 >>> Installing (1 of 1) sys-devel/automake-1.11.6-r1
19 >>> Auto-cleaning packages...
20
21 >>> No outdated packages were found on your system.
22
23 * Regenerating GNU info directory index...
24 * Processed 148 info files.
25 * After world updates, it is important to remove obsolete packages with
26 * emerge --depclean. Refer to `man emerge` for more information.
27
28
29 # emerge --search automake
30 Searching...
31 [ Results for search key : automake ]
32 [ Applications found : 2 ]
33
34 * sys-devel/automake
35 Latest version available: 1.13.4
36 Latest version installed: 1.13.4
37 Size of files: 1,415 kB
38 Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/
39 Description: Used to generate Makefile.in from Makefile.am
40 License: GPL-2
41
42 * sys-devel/automake-wrapper
43 Latest version available: 9
44 Latest version installed: 9
45 Size of files: 0 kB
46 Homepage: http://www.gentoo.org/
47 Description: wrapper for automake to manage multiple automake versions
48 License: GPL-2

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