The changelog for nt-misc/ntp shows that the (~arch) ntp-4.2.4_p0 is a version bump. The only other ebuild is the stable 4.2.4-r1. Yet using portage-2.1.2.6 on an ~x86 system, 'emerge -auDvN world' does not offer to upgrade ntp and 'emerge "=net-misc/ntp-4.2.4_p0"' shows it as a downgrade from the installed 4.2.4-r1. emerge --info Portage 2.1.2.6 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r2, 2.6.21-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.21-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz Gentoo Base System release 1.12.10 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 05 May 2007 14:50:01 +0000 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.32 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.23b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.21 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=nocona -mtune=nocona -pipe -ggdb" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=nocona -mtune=nocona -pipe -ggdb" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks installsources metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk http://gentoo.tiscali.nl/ http://gentoo.mirror.solnet.ch http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/" LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_GB.UTF-8" LINGUAS="en_GB en" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/musicbrainz /usr/portage/local/layman/emacs /usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib acl acpi aim alsa apache2 arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bonobo browserplugin bzip2 bzlib cairo caps cddb cdparanoia cdr cjk cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus directfb doc dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emboss encode esd ethereal evo examples exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gcj gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal iconv icq idn ieee1394 imagemagick imlib ipv6 isdnlog jabber jack java javascript jbig jce jpeg jpeg2k junit kde kdehiddenvisibility lcms leim libg++ libgda libnotify libsamplerate lm_sensors logrotate lua mad matroska mbox midi mikmod milter mime mmap mmx mng mono mp3 mpeg mpi mplayer msn ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin odbc offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oscar oss pam pcntl pcre pdf perl png postgres ppds pppd profile pulseaudio python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline recode reflection ruby sdl seamonkey session sharedmem sndfile snmp sockets sox speex spell spl sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl svg sysvipc tcl tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts uicktime unicode usb v4l vim-syntax vorbis win32codecs wmf wxwindows x264 x86 xface xine xml xml2 xorg xv xvid yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" CAMERAS="canon" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_GB en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa fbdev" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 171259 ***