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Bug 12328 - why update -> downgrade foo to get the same version already installed?
Summary: why update -> downgrade foo to get the same version already installed?
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Nicholas Jones (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2002-12-17 13:30 UTC by Maurizio Disimino
Modified: 2011-10-30 22:18 UTC (History)
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Description Maurizio Disimino 2002-12-17 13:30:02 UTC 
# for i in netscape-flash; do emerge -s $i; emerge -p $i; qpkg -I -v $i; done
Searching...
[ Results for search key : netscape-flash ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

*  net-www/netscape-flash
      Latest version available: 6.0.69
      Latest version installed: 6.0b
      Size of downloaded files: 1,373 kB
      Homepage:    http://www.macromedia.com/
      Description: Macromedia Shockwave Flash Player


These are the packages that I would merge, in order.

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild    UD] net-www/netscape-flash-6.0.69 [6.0b-r0]

net-www/netscape-flash-6.0b *

ok, why is emerge trying do update->downgrade to get the 
same version I already have atm? 

bug || spank me
Comment 1 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-12-18 01:45:13 UTC 
Consider yourself spanked.

Latest version installed: 6.0b

[ebuild    UD] net-www/netscape-flash-6.0.69

6.0b != 6.0.69