114353 – emerge -u doesn't do what it should

Bug 114353 - emerge -u doesn't do what it should

Summary: emerge -u doesn't do what it should

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2005-12-03 06:48 UTC by Charles Christie
Modified:	2005-12-03 06:52 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Charles Christie 2005-12-03 06:48:05 UTC

Emerge -u should NOT upgrade to the latest STABLE package. What it SHOULD do is
check version numbers. If the version number is lower, skip it. If it is higher,
upgrade it. That way, people who have emerged unstable packages (like
ndiswrapper-1.5, which is required for my system to work properly, and mozilla
firefox 1.5 because I like all the new features) won't have their features
downgraded (or in ndiswrapper's case, have it fail)

Reproducible: Always
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Expected Results:  
update the system, not blindly replace packages with the stable tree

Comment 1 Jan Kundrát (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-12-03 06:52:14 UTC

Please read 
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=3