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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Inconsistency in portage automake package versioning
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:49:46
Message-Id: 546A6D5E.8040708@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Inconsistency in portage automake package versioning by Gevisz
1 On 17/11/2014 23:29, Gevisz wrote:
2 > In today's system update I was advised to update sys-devel/automake
3 > from version 1.11.6 to version 1.11.6-r1. However, just after the
4 > update the system reported that sys-devel/automake has version 1.13.4.
5 >
6 > Is it only me who think that something is wrong here?
7 >
8 > The commands and their output is given below.
9 >
10 > # emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse --backtrack=90 --ask world
11 >
12 > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
13 >
14 > Calculating dependencies... done!
15 > [ebuild U ] sys-devel/automake-1.11.6-r1 [1.11.6]
16 >
17 > Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] y
18 > ...
19 >>>> Installing (1 of 1) sys-devel/automake-1.11.6-r1
20 >>>> Auto-cleaning packages...
21 >
22 >>>> No outdated packages were found on your system.
23 >
24 > * Regenerating GNU info directory index...
25 > * Processed 148 info files.
26 > * After world updates, it is important to remove obsolete packages with
27 > * emerge --depclean. Refer to `man emerge` for more information.
28 >
29 >
30 > # emerge --search automake
31
32 ...
33
34
35 Nothing wrong there. automake is SLOTted.
36
37 emerge upgraded one of your installed SLOTs, and that slot is not the
38 highest version number you have.
39
40 p.s. make life easier for yourself when searching the tree. Install eix
41 and stop using emerge --search. eix runs out a gazillion times faster :-)
42
43
44 --
45 Alan McKinnon
46 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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