'emerge -pu world' wants to update (downgrade) virtually all the packages on this machine. I did update portage to 2.0.47-r2. Results and emerge info attached. I've also run 'etc-update' appropriately as well. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Created attachment 8447 [details] results of 'emerge info &>info.msgs'
Created attachment 8448 [details] world.msgs results of 'emerge -pu world &> world.msgs'
this is just, why you moved from unstable to stable ~x86 -> x86 sv24 root # emerge -p gimp-print These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] media-gfx/gimp-print-4.2.4 sv24 root # emerge -p man-pages These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] sys-apps/man-pages-1.54 sv24 root # emerge -p gettext These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] sys-devel/gettext-0.11.5 sv24 root # cd /usr/portage/ sv24 portage # ls media-gfx/gimp-print/ ChangeLog gimp-print-4.2.1.ebuild gimp-print-4.2.4.ebuild files gimp-print-4.2.2.ebuild gimp-print-4.2.5.ebuild sv24 portage # ls sys-devel/gettext/ ChangeLog gettext-0.11.1.ebuild gettext-0.11.5-r1.ebuild files gettext-0.11.3-r1.ebuild gettext-0.11.5.ebuild sv24 portage # ls sys-apps/man-pages/ ChangeLog files man-pages-1.54.ebuild man-pages-1.55.ebuild
DOH!!!!! me bad - I forgot to re-edit make.conf after emerging portage and running etc-update. I let the new version over-write the old in order to get the non-root user stuff in properly. I'll try not to let it happen again.