running emerge rsync on my systems recently warns me that a new versionf of portage is available. Checking via emerge world -up" says that portage version 2.0.47-r2 is installed, but 2.0.46-r12 is scheduled to be installed if I run "emerge world -u" I've tried multiple rsync's to make sure I didn't sync from an out-of date mirror. Still get the issue. decided NOT to re-emerge an older version of portage for fear that it might cause more issues. does portageand your rsync system use some sort of check-pointing to determine how far out ofa data a mirror is with the central repository (like cvs) ? Waht happens when someone rsync's to a mirro that is behind the times? (slow links or server misconfig) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge rsync 2.emerge world -up Actual Results: "emerge" displays: [ebuild UD] sys-apps/portage-2.0.46-r12 [2.0.47-r2] 2.0.47-r2 is already installed, why would I want to downgrade? Expected Results: not have chosen to downgrade portage to an older release. Portage 2.0.47-r2 (default-1.0, gcc-2.95.3, glibc-2.2.5-r2,2.2.5-r7) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.19-xfs-r2a i686 AMD Athlon(tm) MP GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Lin ux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/confi g /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb:/usr/kde/3.1/share/config:/usr/ kde/3/share/config:/usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt cups encode jpeg libg++ mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses pdflib qtmt quicktime spell xml2 xmms xv aalib arts berkdb bonobo cdr directfb esd gdbm ggi gif gnome-libs gpm gtkhtml guile imlib java libwww motif mozilla na s nls oggvorbis pam perl png python qt readline ruby scanner sdl slang ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff X gtk gnome alsa kde opengl -ldap truetype" COMPILER="" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j3" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
there were too much problem with .47 so we decided to switch back if you don't have any problems, you don't need to downgrade
