Bug 3183

Summary:	Portage Attempts to Downgrade You
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) <cardoe>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-05-29 12:33:49 UTC

I got daring and installed Gentoo w/ gcc3.1 on one of my systems. So likewise I
had to comment out gcc3.1 from the package.mask along with the new Perl
release... 5.6.1-r4 (cause -r3 doesn't compile with gcc3.1). I also chose to
install Mozilla 1.0rc3 which I had to unmask. Now we come to the root of the
problem. I do emerge rsync and it updates but when I run emerge -pu world it
wants to install Mozilla 1.0rc2 and Perl 5.6.1-r3. Which would quite obviously
be a downgrade. Granted it's updating the package.mask so the packages I picked
aren't filtered out anymore but it should still see there are newer versions
installed and not try to downgrade me. This problem does not exist when I make
my own ebuild that's a newer version and install that then run emerge rsync. It
does not suggest a downgrade then.

Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-05-29 15:06:13 UTC

That happens because of the way package.mask has those things specified.  Those
specific revisions are masked in it.  I am assiging this to the portage2 folks,
because there is something in the works about this kind of thing.

Comment 2 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-07-12 07:19:26 UTC

I'm going to close this one out since I'm the one that reported it and it was 
back when I was naive. I understand now.